Doc this car doesnt have enough windows to get up to 88

Overheal

Windows? Where we're going we dont need - Windows.

http://gizmodo.com/5090235/fujistus-wraparound-exterior-car-video-gives-birds-eye-view-worlds-first

Fujitsu's taken the handy exterior cameras found on high-end, larger vehicles today and applied some nifty video processing to make them a driving aid par excellence. In fact, Fujitsu's saying it's the world's first 360º wraparound vehicle view. The system has four exterior video cameras at the vehicle's corners, and a central processing unit that takes the feeds and processes them to give you exactly the best view to aid your current requirements.

This could be a proper birds-eye view to help you slide into a parking space more easily, or an adaptive perspective view for maneuvering in a tight spot, a 360º wraparound view for improved situational awareness when driving through a crowded urban area, and so on.

Amazing stuff, seeming like its turning driving into a partly video game-like experience. The system is condensed to a system-on-a-chip device which Fujitsu is testing, able to process the video images within 30milliseconds for real-time information. Just don't expect it in your car anytime soon: Fujitsu's planning on releasing tech like this slowly and incrementally, as they verify the effectiveness of this additional driver situational awareness tech.


As some of you have pointed out, Infiniti have had a vaguely similar-looking system for a while. But it doesn't offer the same degree of real-time, selectable multi-angle image processing power as Fujitsu's—this new system's specialty. URL="http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2008/20081117-01.html"]Fujitsu[/URL] via [URL="http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-17031-World%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99s+First+Wraparound+View+for+vehicles+%28Fujitsu%29.html"]Akihabaranews[/URL

Notch000

Looks likea headacke to me, on a side note ithought gizmondo was a registered company trying to release a gamees console a few years ago where the founder fecked off on the run with millions of investors money

vibe666

that's actually pretty damn cool.

CiaranC

Notch000 wrote: »

Looks likea headacke to me, on a side note ithought gizmondo was a registered company trying to release a gamees console a few years ago where the founder fecked off on the run with millions of investors money

Yeah it was. The site is Gizmodo. No 'n'.

Overheal

Notch000 wrote: »

Looks likea headacke to me, on a side note ithought gizmondo was a registered company trying to release a gamees console a few years ago where the founder fecked off on the run with millions of investors money

Gizmondo is not Gizmodo.

Just for the record.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmondo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmodo

This being a prototype I can only imagine how they might streamline the idea in a few years.