If Yu Chengdong can split the body, he may also appear in the interior sharing live broadcast of saic motor Feifan R7 last Saturday.
As is customary, he will also praise his own AR-HUD products as "the world's first, not one".
The Feifan R7 is the first production car equipped with Huawei's AR-HUD, and at this stage, the new HI version of the Polar Fox Alpha S and the AITO Inquisitive M5 do not yet have this function, and I guess the next model equipped with this function may be Avita 11.
As can be seen through the pictures, the Huawei AR-HUD on the Feifan R 7 can help the driver display navigation, route, speed, and environmental location information such as charging stations in front of the field of vision.
(The following pictures are Huawei AR-HUD demonstration effects, non-Feifan R7 real car, and then share with you after Feifan R7 updates the real car effect)
In addition, in the parking environment, it can also provide a viewing function of giant screen video. Although the Feifan R7 did not release renderings, everyone probably imagined that a 70-inch 2K TV was placed 7.5 meters in front of the car.
Compared with ordinary HUDs, AR-HUDs display a larger frame, richer information, and different scenes and functions.
HuD is to project key information such as navigation and speed on the front windshield when driving, so that the driver does not have to look down at the instrument and the central control screen, mainly to improve driving safety.
The use scenarios of AR-HUD are much richer, and in summary, there are three major scenarios, driving information during artificial driving, interactive information when assisting driving, and entertainment information when parking.
The FOV field of view of ordinary HUD is limited, and can only display instrument information such as vehicle speed and vehicle condition, but the field of view of AR-HUD is greater than 10 ° x 4 °, which can cover more surrounding pedestrians and the environment and achieve the effect of reality enhancement.
In addition to navigation, AR-HUD can also access ADAS information, such as the distance from the car in front, can also be superimposed on the road ahead, in the event of some emergencies, such as the car is pressed, it can be visualized to remind the driver to take timely action.
When the AR-HUD can access ADAS information, it is like every driver can "mechanically ascend" and experience the joy of Iron Man.
Especially in some scenarios, smart sensors are actually clearer than the naked eye, such as driving high speed in foggy weather, sometimes the visibility is only about 50 meters, but at this time the millimeter wave radar is not affected, which can remind the driver that there can be potential dangers in front.
Feifan R7 is very strong in sensor hardware, there is a Luminar semi-solid-state lidar in front, the farthest detection distance under 10% reflectivity is 250 meters, which is Luminar's first in China.
In addition, the Fran R7 also debuted ZF's 4D millimeter wave radar, which can provide higher confidence information about obstacles ahead. In foggy weather, lidar point clouds may be eaten by water mist, and 4D millimeter-wave radar can also make up positions.
These sensors can basically provide environmental information for the whole scene, and these processed information is displayed in front of the field of view through AR-HUD, just like their eyes also have the ability to measure distance, overcome the night, and overcome the fog weather.
In addition, there is a scene of assisted driving enabled, although Huawei's Yu Zong's mouth is "automatic driving", but automatic driving is really far away, at least 3 to 5 years, we still have to accept the reality of man-machine co-driving.
In the scenario of human-computer co-driving, interaction is crucial. We see that at this stage, under the Pilot function, most of the interactions are to put the modeling information of high-precision maps and real-time perception on the central control screen, and Weilai, which is doing a better job, will also display a green route logo in front of the field of view through the HUD.
With AR-HUD, human-computer interaction can be taken to a higher level, not only can all kinds of alarms be displayed more timely and accurately, but also enhance the trust in machine driving by truly mapping the driving path planned by AI in front of the road.
Finally, with the parking lot view, the function of AR-HUD can focus on entertainment, break through the space limit to watch movies with large screens, and park everywhere is a car movie theater.
In addition to the AR-HUD on the front windshield, Huawei also offers a solution for projection with a sky curtain. Previously, Huawei Su Research Institute demonstrated this function, the owner can lie in the back row, through the canopy to watch the giant screen movie, the effect is very stunning, guess which car will debut this function?
In addition to these scenarios, Huawei's AR-HUD's previous demonstrations also had interactions with smart cockpits, such as displaying information about the surrounding environment in front of the field of view.
This feature has great potential, imagine that in the future, as the multimodal interaction of voice and line of sight tracking matures, it can bring a more intelligent travel experience.
For example, when you pass by a storefront, when the system captures your eyeballs staying in a restaurant, the AR-HUD can display the information and rating of the storefront, and then actively ask you whether to book the restaurant through voice and help you navigate past.
In fact, not only this function, because AR-HUD can provide a larger format, higher resolution display, the imagination space it carries is very large.
At present, there are not many products to choose from AR-HUD, in addition to Huawei, the mainland also has corresponding solutions, but from the perspective of progress, Huawei is the leader this time.
Previously, on various occasions, I heard Huawei say that "the accumulation of technology in the ICT industry empowers the automotive industry.". I didn't have much of an impression of this sentence before, but AR-HUD really made me feel this kind of "dimensionality reduction blow".
For Huawei, which is engaged in communications, the matter of controlling light has long been familiar with the road. In the field of optical communication, the problem that needs to be solved is to control thousands of beams of light in the priority size and do dozens of optical folds.
The AR-HUD only needs to control a single beam of light, and it is enough to do less than 10 optical folds in a relatively spacious space. Judging from the pictures of R7, Huawei AR-HUD does not occupy much space in the instrument panel in integration, which is basically similar to ordinary HUDs.
This is like Wei Shen helping doctoral students solve math problems, although the problems are really quite difficult, but compared to wei Shen's daily research topics, it is really a dimensionality reduction blow.