I’m a tech head, and often an early adopter of new technology. I would love one of the new heads up display unit that universally fit full face helmets. Both Eyelights and NUVIZ offer a motorcycle head-up display with integrated navigation, communication, camera and music. They connect to your smartphone via Bluetooth.



The NUVIZ is the larger of the two, but comes with an inbuilt camera, however the Eyelights comes with microphone and speakers, and can be operated by voice command. Both use a small prism that displays a screen. Both are around the $700 but these price should drop over time.


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Such a product is a solution looking for a (non-existent) problem to solve.

I've had a lot of experience with head-up displays in aircraft. They are only used for short periods of time (perhaps 5 to 7 minutes) during very specific phases of flight, for example, on final approach to landing. During all other phases of flight, it is much easier to look at the instrument panel (analogous to the speedometer and/or GPS navigator on a motorcycle) or to look out the window to see where you are going or what attitude the aircraft is in.

The benefit of a HUD in an aircraft is that the HUD image is displayed directly in the pilot's line of sight, and the symbology on the HUD exactly lines up with and exactly matches the position of the horizon outside the aircraft, and the runway the aircraft will be landing on. This enables the pilot to transition from instrument flight (displayed on the HUD) to visual flight (looking at the runway) without changing focus or eye position. Such a transition period does not exist in automotive operation.

Automakers have introduced HUDs in vehicles, but they have not been particularly enthusiastically received, primarily because they appear outside of the center of vision (normally at the bottom of the windshield) and still require the user to look downwards to refer to them. The same holds true of a motorcycle helmet-mounted HUD - the display is outside the center of vision, and if you have to look outside the center of vision to gather information, you might as well look at the primary instrument panel and/or navigation device, where you can find a high-quality display, rather than looking at a small, abbreviated, and monochromatic display in a HUD.

Michael

I would put the lack of take up due to the cost. I drive high end cars for a living and personally I think heads up is a blooming fantastic bit of kit. Not sure about it on a bike, quite yet, but on a car it's the business..... Except on a Lexus which isn't quite as good as say on the audi s or Rolls Royce.
If they did them on a Dacia Duster then I'd have it!!

Hmmmm, after watching the video I can not decide whether it is a positive or negative to safety.

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