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Navdy’s Heads-Up Display for your car starts shipping for $799
- doorty 10y agoI thought it would be much bigger and projected onto the glass. Maybe my physics is off, but this form factor doesn't look that impressive.
- diggernet 10y ago"onto an almost completely-clear piece of glass" I suspect the glass is slightly silvered (similar to fighter plane HUDs), in order to reflect the image better. Wouldn't work nearly as well projecting onto the windshield.
- hx87 10y agoThat might work if the windshield is steeply raked (e.g. Honda Civic) but not if it's closer to vertical.
- gigatexal 10y ago800 bucks is too much imo
- TaylorGood 10y agoIt wasn't 10 years ago when car audio / electronics regularly commanded $1,200+ for a "Flip up" or double din screen by Alpine. Now they are $250+ with everything better; touch screen etc.
- mzs 10y agoToo bad the Garmin HUD was discontinued: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/on-the-road/discontinued/hud-head-up-display-/prod134348.html https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/on-the-road/discontinued/hud... It was $150 plus a smartphone and $35 app or compatible Garmin GPS.
- praeivis 10y agoBecause Chinese clones cost only $30.
- StavrosK 10y agoDo you have any you'd recommend?
- AtheistOfFail 10y agoLink or it didn't happen.
- post_break 10y agoTons on aliexpress https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20161025091228&SearchText=car+hud https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S... Refurb on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Garmin-Head-Up-Plus-Display-HUD-Navigation-System-/311652123586?hash=item488fea03c2:g:omIAAOSwZ1BXfuZ5 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Garmin-Head-Up-Plus-Display-HUD-Navi...
- mmastrac 10y agoAre any of those integrated with a phone? They all look like they are just OBD-II speedometers. $25 for a simple product like that is reasonable.
- post_break 10y agoOnly the garmin is integrated via bluetooth. There are chinese clones of the navdy but haven't found a way to purchase them.
- exhilaration 10y agoThere's a comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12790191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12790191) that mentions one of the Chinese clones by name: Carrobot. That might help you track one down.
- fra 10y agoNavdy looks neat, but I have a hard time believing that $799 is the right price point for something that competes with a $20 cell phone holder... Perhaps I'll eat my word :).
- hx87 10y agoLet's see: no weird angles, no distortion, no phones sliding around the dash, no having to run shoddily made apps with backwards displays...there are plenty of reasons for the $799 price.
- gwbas1c 10y agoDo you work for Navdy? I paid about $500 for an after market stereo with a phone holder and professional installation, so I'm clearly your target market. $800 for something like this is waaaay too high, and this is coming from someone who actually paid good money for a similar low-tech solution.
- robhu 10y agoSurely this is different, as the display is transparent which your phone (which hopefully isn't in the centre of your view) isn't.
- zminjie 10y agoChinese knockoffs are already in full speed at a much lower price. One of my friends saw an exact Navdy knockoff called Carrobot in China selling for only $400. Supposedly it worked pretty well and was already shipping back in February.
- exhilaration 10y agoA Google search of Carrobot turns up this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLNC6ey82E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLNC6ey82E and this indiegogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/carrobot-the-world-s-most-powerful-car-display#/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/carrobot-the-world-s-most... I'm surprised that Navdy hasn't at least shut down their indiegogo presence.
- upofadown 10y ago>... put it on a screen that is, in theory, less distracting. A heads up display isn't less distracting. If anything it is more distracting since it is more in your field of view. The value of a heads up display is that you don't have to move your visual focus as much as with something in the dash. Better heads up systems than this one make it so you don't have to change your distance focus, everything is at infinity focus. A heads up display still requires your attention. The improvement is in a reduction of the dead time while switching between it and your surroundings.
- Heyokamerican 10y agoI believe the front element is curved--i.e. it's a lens--and the system puts focus a couple of feet forward of the windshield.
- rory096 10y agoThat's head-up display. And while I'm at it, it's not "line of site" either.
- jdcarter 10y agoMy wife's BMW X4 has a built-in HUD, and to us the killer uses are: 1) Current speed shown along with the speed limit. It gets the speed limit from onboard maps combined with using the car's cameras. If there's road construction, for example, it'll notice the signs and update the speed limit accordingly. This seems really simple, but it means never needing to look at your dash to check your speed. 2) Driving directions. Very handy when you're in places you don't know well, or in heavy traffic. The HUD is dramatically better than looking aside to your phone or the car's center console screen. If an after-market HUD can do those, I'd seriously consider putting one in my other (older) car.
- Cyph0n 10y agoPoint 1 doesn't seem that simple to me. Sounds like a cool car though.
- jdcarter 10y agoWell it "seems simple" in terms of the value you get: your speedometer is only a quick glance down, so until you get used to driving with a HUD, you don't really appreciate its value. Eliminating all those glances down to the dash really does make a difference! (As for implementation, that's absolutely not a simple problem.)
- Cyph0n 10y agoI thought you were talking about the implementation. My bad.
- asenna 10y agoThinking about "killer uses" for a car HUD makes me chuckle.
- iamatworknow 10y agoGreat place to find out how much ammo you have remaining.
- post_break 10y ago$799 ouch. I'm waiting to see what Anker's ROAV costs in the mean time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziMZgN60muM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziMZgN60muM
- brianbreslin 10y agoI was thinking the same thing. Anker seems to be able to put out decent quality hardware affordably. So I'd be surprised if their version is over $299. Unfortunately I can't see myself spending more than $99 on something like this.
- monkmartinez 10y agoI wonder how it will work in Arizona sun. Especially when one would potentially need it the most. That is, in the morning and then in afternoon/evening commute. The sun is at the worst possible angles during those times if one is east or west bound respectively.
- cordite 10y agoHudly is similar though they seem to be more focused on the community providing software solutions for what to display.
- grok2 10y agoIsn't it illegal in most states in the US to place objects on the windshield like Hudly's projection device appears to be placed in their pictures?
- falcolas 10y agoI'd be curious how hard it would be to create a "case" which could take a smartphone screen and properly reverse it and move the focus point outwards, such that you could get the same effect with your smart phone displaying off the windshield.
- ge96 10y agoToo bad it's not a thin-sheet that you apply to your entire windshield. Not sure how you'd make a cheap material that's also a transparent display.