Heads-Up Displays (HUDs) As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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920 words · ~4 min read
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heads up displays or Huds as they're more commonly referred to are display
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units which allow the user to monitor important information on a display
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without the distraction of well uh putting his or her head down okay so
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admittedly the name wasn't inspired by any particularly outof thebox thinking
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but while the name May suck Huds themselves are a revolutionary idea and
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although many of you will quickly recognize heads up displays as the
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interface showing you know how much health and Gordon Freeman has left after
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clubbing 400 baby head crabs or whatever
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really that's just fantasy and in the same way that truth is often Cooler Than
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Fiction the origin of Hud technology is
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actually derived from jet fighters even better now to be clear they weren't as
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advanced as what you'll find on your collector's edition Master Chief helmet
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that was totally worth the $13 you spent on it but rather they were based roughly
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off an old airman's machine gun reflector site which illuminated a
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Target in the site when properly aligned this technique was eventually adapted By
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Her Majesty's Royal Air Force in the early' 40s and adopted to use cathode
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ray tubes and phosphorous coated TV screens you know like the one your
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grandma still has to allow night Pilots to monitor targets directly via HUD
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radar and then well from there on the
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seals never really stood a chance did they second gen units instead use solid
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light such as from LEDs to project images onto a pilot's wind screen from
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an LCD display and are commonly found on Commercial aircraft but due to their
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cost at the time were unlikely to be found in consumer goods like cars third
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gen Huds on the other hand don't require projection at all anymore but instead
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utilize a specially coated viewing surface and a doad called an optical
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wave guide which manipulates visual light spectrum waves whatever the pants
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that means allowing folks like automakers to display readouts like
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speed GPS navigation uh music controls
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or even like web content directly onto their proprietary HUD systems on the
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windshield which finally brings us to fourth gen systems which use lasers to
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display highdefinition images directly onto clear surfaces like that suet
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interface and Minority Report potentially making them very compact
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portable and versatile but heads up displays aren't just useful when
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operating a vehicle or solving future crime in fact there's an Ever growing
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list of programs which in essence transform a person's smartphone camera
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into a miniature HUD and you know while
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yes technically any display that sits right in front of your face so you don't
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have to put your head down is technically a HUD most of them are better implemented than that and that
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allows people to see information about local hotpots Museum exist exhibits or
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even the Plenty of Fish profiles of passers by as they walk down the street
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and as this technology continues to develop be that in the form of laser
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displays uh transparent OLED displays holographic displays or even head
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mounted displays that have a screen to show you the virtual stuff with cameras
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mounted to the front for the view of real life more and more people will be
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able to enjoy the benefit of access to information without the use of their
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hands and assuming all goes according to plan this will even be possible without
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having to wear something that makes you look and feel like a total early adopter
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glass hole but what if we lived in a world where you didn't have to go out in
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public at all to get your razors and other bathroom supplies shipped directly
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to your door for only a few bucks a month well that world is now and here if
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you're in Canada the United States Australia or New Zealand with Dollar
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important I mean what if you know someone was real close to your butt and
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some of those key things like the one wipe Charlie if you're ever traveling in
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Asia like I was before you'll be happy you have some one wipe Charlie on you
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there's no need for vibrating handles
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which although that could be useful for oh sorry uh no need for vibrating
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handles just high quality razors and other bathroom supplies right to your
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club thanks for watching guys if you like the video you know what to do if
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you disliked well you know how to do that too I've seen plenty of evidence of
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that on the internet also you suggestions for future fast as posses go
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ahead and uh leave a comment below actually periodically we do go through
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them and look for suggestions and I think that pretty much wraps it for this
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