Additionally, there are potential applications for it on the track.
By sending camera images from one car on a route to others that may follow, either immediately after or days later, Chevrolet is developing a novel application of augmented reality technology with the goal of making driving more entertaining and informative. The patent, which was discovered by CarBuzz and published by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), describes how a first car could capture video from a camera and send it to a second car through a web-based interface. Audio clips and GPS data could be added to the received feed to make it more entertaining and/or informative.
The idea is that a driver can take a route, and when the system is activated, it can record the route and driver sound clips. These sound clasps can be data chomps illuminating others regarding the area of a focal point, similar to a road seller, an eatery, a decent climbing trail, the course to a lake, or another milestone or fascination.
Cameras, a GPS system, a head-up display or other screen, microphones, and speakers are all the system needs, most of which are standard in nearly all modern automobiles. The driver can effectively serve as a tour guide for any motorists who download the route map and record the route they took to get there. Alternately, a convoy of friends could make use of it.
The car would play the sound clips as it got closer to the relevant points when they were downloaded, and it could also superimpose images on the windscreen.
The image could be a small arrow to indicate which turnoff to take next in a straightforward application, or it could be larger and depict a pothole on the right side of the lane you're in.
Additionally, the patent allows for the addition of additional information, such as local landscape details. This could be something as simple as a lack of cell reception within a few miles, the hours of operation of souvenir shops, the menu of a local diner, the cost of gas at the next station, seasonal flood risks, an annual migration of local fauna, heat wave warnings, or dangerous wildlife in the area. High-speed applications are present, despite not being explicitly mentioned. With audio prompts and augmented reality overlays on a screen, one could improve their driving without a human coach in the car. In fact, Ferrari has made a similar proposal, albeit much more complicated.
You could either record yourself driving a Chevrolet Camaro around the Willow Springs circuit and make audible comments whenever you do something good or bad, or you could download the track data and try to imitate Randy Pobst's driving inputs to improve. You would be able to evaluate your own performances with remarkable clarity and grow as you drive.
On the off chance that you'd prefer to go sluggish, we can see this turning into a helpful expansion to trail maps, where a guide could make sense of how to situate their truck as they tackle Damnation's Entryway.
With this being just one more in a long line of augmented reality advancements in recent months, we bet that the technology will soon be available in a car near you. The applications are potentially endless.
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