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No more than a week ago we were talk­ing about this in a brainstorming/​party ses­sion while hid­den in a cave in the Gavi countryside.

It was no more than a joke and the sen­tence come through as a joke: “How long will the GPS indus­try take to build some­thing that makes use of Heads-​up dis­play tech­nol­ogy such as that used by mil­i­tary jets?”.

It seems that the first GPS prod­uct with this tech­nol­ogy has been released.

Just have a look at the G.top HG-​100 specifications.

The HG-​100 is a GPS sen­sor, actu­ally with very good per­for­mance, that imple­ments head-​ups dis­play tech­nol­ogy to visu­al­ize basic infor­ma­tion on the dri­ver windshield.

From the infor­ma­tions I have been able to col­lect from the web­site the device is able to display:

• Car head­ing.
• Cur­rent speed.
• Speed limit alerts.

As you can see that’s does not seem to be really use­ful infor­ma­tion but the fact that this kind of prod­ucts start to appear on the mar­ket is a clear indi­ca­tion of the next steps of an industry.

Nowa­days there are clear limitations:

• The infor­ma­tions dis­played by the device do no rep­re­sent nav­i­ga­tion data.
• The device will need a reflec­tive film for infor­ma­tions to be dis­played on the windscreen.

Why do I blog this? I think that this will be one of the next move the GPS indus­try will do to make their prod­ucts more attrac­tive to customers.

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