This is one of the cooler products I have seen (not yet seen the real thing) coming out of Sony. It’s a car navigation unit, which is not a big deal, but it is HDD-based (30GB) and it has data in 3D (hence the X-Y-Z axes in the name.) Naturally, you can put music on the HDD and play it in your car via a FM transceiver.
I swear- the screenshots and the video of the unit make it look like you are in a video game. It is eerie. Meta-reality…
Sony HDD AV Navi System NV-XYZ [jp.sonystyle.com]
Sony HDD AV Navi System [sony.jp]
Great, it looks like a movie and that s exactly why we don t need it. We don t need another windshield full of disrupting info and details that have nothing to do with where we are going. The only purpose of these cool details is to make it more precise? hun… The more details you have in this case, the more you ll be interested to look at it and disrupted and the more time you ll spend looking at that screen trying to make out whether this is really the same thing as what you see for real… People’s reflex will be to go back and forth between looking at the road and the screen to make sure that that road is the one that on the screen… even though that tree doesn t seem to be here and that-banner-is-not-on-the-screen so-maybe-it’s-not-the-right-street kinda deal…
Simpler is better. Sound is even better, we don t need another screen… we need to focus on the road. More details is not the way forward!! more details will steal attention and focus. This is SOOOO wrong I think!!
I think that this is really cool. There’s a navigational system for aircraft that was recently approved called the “Chelton”, I believe, that gives you a 3D view of terrain. It’s especially useful for blind approaches in bad weather. For a car, the visual cues of a 3D display seem like they reduce driver workload in a similar fashion – you don’t have to extrapolate a 2D street map into 3D in your head to attempt to match it to landmarks.
Of course, I always know where I’m going and would never spring for such a device – but it’s still really cool, if not entirely useful, technology.
cdg
Sony Navi XYZ Makes Driving a Game
JOEL JOHNSON — Sony’s got a new in-car AV Navigation system with a built-in hard drive that produces gorgeous 3D maps in realtime. My Japanese is a little sketchy (or as they say in Japan, “He can neither speak nor read Japanese,”) so I can’t tell you…
Thanks for the information, I was really impressed by it
Next generation (dream):
1. we remove front window and put HDTV screen
2. install radar system
looking good?