Sony Patent Describes 'Fun' With Car VR Displays
Sony has ideas for adapting virtual-reality head-up display technology for use in cars, said a U.S. patent application (2017/0240047) published Aug. 24 at the Patent and Trademark Office. The application, filed in early 2016, describes an “active window” for vehicle…
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infomatics and VR in which the car’s front windshield is partly covered with a flexible, transparent OLED screen so the driver or passengers can see a real-world view of the car’s surroundings overlaid by synthetic images. Using what Sony dubs a “fun selector,” occupants can decide whether to augment reality with useful information to aid navigation or to add whimsy. The outside world can be “enhanced to allow amusing things to happen,” such as an image of a dinosaur peering out from between two trees or boulders, or superimposing images of grass, lakes and flowers onto a desert landscape through which the vehicle is passing, it said. Sony didn’t comment Tuesday on possible commercial plans.