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CarPlay Shown Off in New Promo Video from Volvo, Wi-Fi Connections Coming Soon
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Video mirroring is the answer - it appears:
"The connection is based on a streaming H.264 video feed that returns user input from the touch screen."
http://www.multivu.com/mnr/65022-volvo-and-apple-forge-global-alliance
one concern i have is that most current car touchscreens have horrible response-times. it could seriously degrade the experience of using iOS if you have to hit the same button 3 times to get a response...part of the charm of iOS is its responsiveness.
Toyota, but no lexus?
Chances are Lexus falls under the Toyota brand, similar to how Acura is represented with just Honda (since Honda has alread confirmed Acura's will have CarPlay).
Anyways, knowing that the whole display is not dedicated to CarPlay, I'm curious to see how other manufacturers implement the system into their displays.
I also am curious to see how it operates with something like Mercedes's COMMAND controller/touchpad or BMW's iDrive
This sir, I know all too well. Toured with these lads years ago.
Very nice - coincidentally "The Pale Haunt Departure" is on heavy rotation in my living room these days, great work!
On topic: It reminds me of the Ford / Microsoft Sync that we have in our Explorer, although it certainly should be nice to have the devices more embedded. Plus the touch screen feels really cheap, icky and rough compared to tablets/smartphones. One of the major issues that Ford / Microsoft had was complaints from users about the display being too distracting due to clutter and other stuff, I hope this won't become an issue with Apple's system.
In Flames is a band from Sweden like the car manufacturer, that's probably why
It's even better than that - Volvo and In Flames come from the same city!
Samsung just announced car S-Play (pronounced "carsplay" totally different than carplay according to Samsung CEO.). Apparently it turns your entire windshield into a giant Super-AMOLED curved 4k display. This was quoted from the CEO's keynote.
"Google thinks Glass is the answer, but Glass make people pissed off. (20 minute off broadway skit where a young journalist gets mugged and she posts the whole thing on Facebook. Sung to "it's a hard knock life"...badly.)
"Apple thinks a tiny little screen in the car is the answer, Apple always too small and so much losers. I mean look at those losers with their tiny phones. Such losers..." (20 minute skit of lemmings walking around in circles with tiny iPhones sung to "I'll follow you to the end of the earth" ...badly.
"We think carSplay is the next big thing, literally. It's like a giant google glass system for your car, but with much big Super AMOLED ZZXX v6.234.768 Ultra-Hyper-Super Clear Display Technology. I mean just look at the young girl degrading herself Splayed out between the dash board and new carSplay windscreen adapter (see what I did there). We pay good money for women like that to degrade themselves for our products. Please ogle the next big things...and the carSplay as well."
"Now I know what you're thinking, `Wow, you can get a front facing camera and make the windscreen project the outside world to the inside with Galaxy bloatware overlaid on top, just like Glass.` Well, that's a good idea, but honestly, we didn't think of that at first until we saw the new executive plane, and we made it so that it retracts like a window shade, it's beta...But we now have the schematic from those plane people and our copying machines are on full rip-off mode.
"Google thinks Glass is the answer, but Glass make people pissed off. (20 minute off broadway skit where a young journalist gets mugged and she posts the whole thing on Facebook. Sung to "it's a hard knock life"...badly.)
"Apple thinks a tiny little screen in the car is the answer, Apple always too small and so much losers. I mean look at those losers with their tiny phones. Such losers..." (20 minute skit of lemmings walking around in circles with tiny iPhones sung to "I'll follow you to the end of the earth" ...badly.
"We think carSplay is the next big thing, literally. It's like a giant google glass system for your car, but with much big Super AMOLED ZZXX v6.234.768 Ultra-Hyper-Super Clear Display Technology. I mean just look at the young girl degrading herself Splayed out between the dash board and new carSplay windscreen adapter (see what I did there). We pay good money for women like that to degrade themselves for our products. Please ogle the next big things...and the carSplay as well."
"Now I know what you're thinking, `Wow, you can get a front facing camera and make the windscreen project the outside world to the inside with Galaxy bloatware overlaid on top, just like Glass.` Well, that's a good idea, but honestly, we didn't think of that at first until we saw the new executive plane, and we made it so that it retracts like a window shade, it's beta...But we now have the schematic from those plane people and our copying machines are on full rip-off mode.
Wery well done, Volvo. Really excited about the upcoming (and long overdue) next generation XC90.
This is for the Volvo Concept C Coupe using that center console NOT the SUV.
Main Page URL:
http://www.volvocars.com/en-ca/top/about/concept-cars/concept-coupe/pages/default.aspx
Video:
http://esd.volvocars.com/site/Misc/Concept/concept-cars/video/press_video_music_site.mp4
Center Console:
Very beautiful ... yet very reminiscent of the QNX Bentley shown off just under 2yrs ago ....
And an HTML app to boot so remote control's work over WiFi/LTE/HSPA/EDGE/GPRS directly to the car ... concept was thought up and began development just before Tesla implemented theirs using Android.
Still great for Volvo and Apple ... looking forward to seeing lots more collaboration and Siri getting pumped up!
Main Page URL:
http://www.volvocars.com/en-ca/top/about/concept-cars/concept-coupe/pages/default.aspx
Video:
http://esd.volvocars.com/site/Misc/Concept/concept-cars/video/press_video_music_site.mp4
Center Console:
Very beautiful ... yet very reminiscent of the QNX Bentley shown off just under 2yrs ago ....
And an HTML app to boot so remote control's work over WiFi/LTE/HSPA/EDGE/GPRS directly to the car ... concept was thought up and began development just before Tesla implemented theirs using Android.
Still great for Volvo and Apple ... looking forward to seeing lots more collaboration and Siri getting pumped up!
This. Honestly, the nature of our government's plodding legal discourse is just embarrassing.
i think what we'll have is:
iPhone to the car: Video to the car screen (not mirroring, a second screen with different content); audio to the car stereo.
Car to the phone: Car microphone for Siri; Optional car touch screen input; physical buttons for Siri, phone answer/hangup, up down left right select.
Basically the phone does everything and shows it all on screen; The driver can talk, touch, or push buttons to make things work.
I know it's a layer on top of the car's OS and that's what I was referring to. iOS isn't terrible, but if I connect it to say a BMW and those iOS icons pop up, it's going to be such an eye sore being totally different than the iDrive UI.
My suggestion for the future is hopefully the UI to match the car's infotainment system is built into the car or something is done on iOS device to change the UI to match the car when it's connected.
That is way way too detailed and complicated a screen layout for using whilst driving and IMHO incredibly dangerous.
By all means have a touch screen for ease of controls, but that's way way too complex with small information on for instant quick use when you are supposed to be focusing on the road and not killing someone.
By all means have a touch screen for ease of controls, but that's way way too complex with small information on for instant quick use when you are supposed to be focusing on the road and not killing someone.
Do away with stop signs, for example. Why slow the rest of us down because the stupid would speed too fast through free market intersections? We don't need government imposed on us to keep us safe.
<discloses bias: I'm a fan of some regulation>
This could be a huge boom for podcasts. I really hope Apple works on improving the discovery aspect of the podcast app.
Has Ford heard Apple stole, I mean, re-innovated Ford Sync...Does Samsung know about this?
SamsPlay?
For the most part, I agree with you. I always prefer educating people in favor of creating new laws.
But we're socialized from a very young age to treat communication with a much different priority level than adjusting radio stations or flicking a switch on the A/C. There's an innate tendency in most people to give phone calls and messages a degree of focus that the radio dial doesn't warrant--and that's focus being taken away from the road and that is a real danger.