{"id":11691,"date":"2020-02-14T21:43:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T12:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lp-research.com\/?p=11691"},"modified":"2021-07-21T12:08:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:08:04","slug":"ar-hmd-for-in-car-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lp-research.com\/ja\/ar-hmd-for-in-car-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"AR HMD for In-Car Applications – LPVIZ (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is In-Vehicle AR<\/h3>\n

This article describes our first steps in the development of an AR HMD for in-car, aerospace and naval applications.<\/p>\n

Over several years we have developed our LPVR middleware<\/u><\/a>. In the first version the purpose of this middleware was to enable location-based VR<\/u><\/a> with a combination of optical and IMU-based<\/u><\/a> headset tracking. Building on this foundation we extended the system to work as a tracking solution for transportation platforms such as cars, ships or airplanes (Figure 1).<\/p>\n

In contrast to stationary applications where an IMU is sufficient to track the rotations of an HMD, in the in-vehicle use-case, an additional IMU<\/u><\/a> needs to be fixed to the vehicle and the information from this sensor needs to become part of the sensor fusion. We realized this with our LPVR-DUO tracking system<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Applying this middleware to existing augmented reality headsets on the market turned out to be challenging. Most AR HMDs use their own proprietary tracking technology that is only suitable for stationary use-cases, but doesn’t work in moving vehicles. Accessing such a tracking pipeline in order to extend it with our sensor fusion is usually not possible.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1<\/b> – Principle of in-car AR\/VR as implemented with LPVR-DUO<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

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Applications<\/h3>\n

There are a large number of applications for in-car augmented reality ranging from B2B use-cases for design and development to consumer-facing scenarios. A few are listed in the illustration below (Figure 2).<\/p>\n

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Figure 2<\/b> – In-car AR use cases range from a simple virtual dashboard to interactive e-commerce applications. The “camera pass-through” enables the driver to virtually look through the car to see objects otherwise occluded by the car chassis.<\/p>\n

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HMD Specifications<\/h3>\n

For this reason, we decided to start the development of LPVIZ, an AR HMD dedicated to in-vehicle applications. This AR HMD for in-car, aerospace and naval applications is to represent the requirements of our customers as closely as possible:<\/p>\n