Augmented Reality (AR) in automotive applications will increase road safety...
The use of augmented reality (AR) in vehicles has been explored by a number of researchers over the years [1-5, 7, 8]. This body of work has shown that AR has the potential to improve the safety and comfort of driving.
However, in most of these cases the AR technology was simulated, because there was no simple way to create AR in vehicles, or even in driving simulators. This is now changing, with the advent of devices such as Microsoft’s HoloLens. As of 2017 developers can purchase HoloLens for about $3,000, and they can quickly start exploring AR concepts in the laboratory. The ideas explored by simulating AR can now be explored more realistically using actual AR devices.Furthermore, exploration of human-machine interactions in vehicles, as well as between vehicles and road users outside the vehicle, has changed significantly over the last several years. This is due to the fact that vehicle automation is making significant advances, and this has attracted the attention of researchers interested in a number of questions surrounding human-machine interaction for vehicles [6]. Many of these researchers are now asking not only how AR technology can be of use in manual driving situations, but also how it can be used with automated driving.
As of today, technology for AR in driving is not yet technically mature. Open problems include accurate capturing and interpretation of road geometry through computing intensive sensor fusion, precise vehicle positioning, compensation for vibrations, delays, and jitter, laser projection, driver monitoring via inward facing cameras, implementation of sophisticated algorithms to generate precise augmentation content in the viewing field of the driver, and others. A holistic understanding of AR use in driving is required in order to be able to address and solve these issues.