Pioneer’s AVIC-ZH09 GPS navigation systems take augmented reality at the road

While it could possibly not be the 1st GPS navigation system we have seen sporting augmented reality , Pioneer’s latest in-dash series may offer the 1st built-ins to bring AR to the open road. Using a windshield-mounted camera, the AVIC-VH09CS and AVIC-VH09 stream live footage to a 7-inch in-dash display, adding layers of pertinent information to real-time video. Among other things, the AR-capabilities provide visual cues that alert drivers to the changing of upcoming traffic lights and the precise distance of the subsequent turn. Both systems sport a USB port, SD reader, CD and DVD drives, and Bluetooth. Pioneer will allow them to loose in Japan later this month for an as of yet undisclosed amount, but it surely looks as if American drivers will just must keep rolling with plain old reality for now.

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