Also known as HUD
(wiki says) is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints.
Origin of the name stems from a pilot being able to view information with the head positioned ‘up’ and looking forward, instead of angled down looking at lower instruments.
Picture this!
Well maybe not .
But this?
My first helmet, I purchased 8 years ago, I bought a rear LED light for it, it fitted onto the shape of the helmet at the back (shame I never took a photo of it!?!) it was massive! a little box that came with it was wired into the brake lights, when the brakes where applied it sent a signal to the receiver in the light on the helmet.
It weighed 250grams (heavy) but to me at the time I thought this was a important improvement to the helmet. Okay…some people have funny ideas, I was going through a funny ideas stage.
I ditched that in my next helmet, but I still thought apart from protecting your head a helmet was a wasted bit of equipment.
However a bunch of different companies are racing to get an integrated HUD helmet to the market.
.
SKULLY AR – 1 aimed at making motorcycles safer by letting riders see what’s behind them with live feed from a 180deg rear view camera.
Apart from the price… wowser!!! but it is new technology.
I am curious about this helmet which would look great on the r1200r “classic” by the way and a price is available mid 2015
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/skully-ar-1-the-world-s-smartest-motorcycle-helmet
Some other companies are addressing the HUD are
Review: BikeHUD by BikeSystems, the first motorcycle heads-up display
Reevu aims to be first to bring a motorcycle helmet HUD to market
I now have Bluetooth in my helmet, I like it, I don’t like to much gibberish from other riders speaking to me unless its short and sweet, but I can take phone calls, make phone calls.. call the wrong person... well its not perfect, and listen to music.
On my 2007 r1200r the I don’t look down at the instrument panel much on the fly…its too hard to read, and the font is too skinny for my eyes, the speedo is fine.
Having that info at the bottom of visor could be the solution, if you could still use a scroll button from the handle bar well then all good…but I feel in the future buttons will not be there.
It would be good if you could custom build what information you wanted to see displayed in front of your eyes.
GPS, a traffic congestion app that lets you know a less congested route if you live in the city.
A LEO positioning app??:clown:
Price aside for all this new technology would forum members find “HEADS UP DISPLAY” useful? Helpful? Horrid?
If usefull what info would be important to you if you had “HEADS UP DISPLAY” in your helmet
(wiki says) is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints.
Origin of the name stems from a pilot being able to view information with the head positioned ‘up’ and looking forward, instead of angled down looking at lower instruments.
Picture this!
Well maybe not .
But this?
My first helmet, I purchased 8 years ago, I bought a rear LED light for it, it fitted onto the shape of the helmet at the back (shame I never took a photo of it!?!) it was massive! a little box that came with it was wired into the brake lights, when the brakes where applied it sent a signal to the receiver in the light on the helmet.
It weighed 250grams (heavy) but to me at the time I thought this was a important improvement to the helmet. Okay…some people have funny ideas, I was going through a funny ideas stage.
I ditched that in my next helmet, but I still thought apart from protecting your head a helmet was a wasted bit of equipment.
However a bunch of different companies are racing to get an integrated HUD helmet to the market.
.
SKULLY AR – 1 aimed at making motorcycles safer by letting riders see what’s behind them with live feed from a 180deg rear view camera.
Apart from the price… wowser!!! but it is new technology.
I am curious about this helmet which would look great on the r1200r “classic” by the way and a price is available mid 2015
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/skully-ar-1-the-world-s-smartest-motorcycle-helmet
Some other companies are addressing the HUD are
Review: BikeHUD by BikeSystems, the first motorcycle heads-up display
Reevu aims to be first to bring a motorcycle helmet HUD to market
I now have Bluetooth in my helmet, I like it, I don’t like to much gibberish from other riders speaking to me unless its short and sweet, but I can take phone calls, make phone calls.. call the wrong person... well its not perfect, and listen to music.
On my 2007 r1200r the I don’t look down at the instrument panel much on the fly…its too hard to read, and the font is too skinny for my eyes, the speedo is fine.
Having that info at the bottom of visor could be the solution, if you could still use a scroll button from the handle bar well then all good…but I feel in the future buttons will not be there.
It would be good if you could custom build what information you wanted to see displayed in front of your eyes.
GPS, a traffic congestion app that lets you know a less congested route if you live in the city.
A LEO positioning app??:clown:
Price aside for all this new technology would forum members find “HEADS UP DISPLAY” useful? Helpful? Horrid?
If usefull what info would be important to you if you had “HEADS UP DISPLAY” in your helmet