Quick App: Head Up Display 29
Turn your windshield into a digital display, with speed, altitude, heading and time all projected onto your windshield with the new Head Up Display app from developer digital_project. The idea behind the app is simple: Keep your “head up” and your eyes on the road while the app reflects your speed onto your car windshield. Of course, the app’s use is limited to night-time driving, which makes it half as useful as we'd like. But come dark, useful it is. And while literally being a spanking new app, Michael Brossart, the developer behind Head Up Display is already working on updates that will include analog style displays and a flipped screen orientation for additional functionality. Add Head Up Display to your stable of in-car webOS apps – available now in the App Catalog for $1.00.
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How does it know your altitude and speed? Does it use the GPS?
This is probably best used on a Touchstone, to avoid having your phone drift all over the dashboard or flying off.
In that case it would be great if could work in Exhibition Mode.
Also when the new Touchstone 2 and Pre 3 are release it would be a great use for the new location awareness feature, so it would only come on when connected to the Touchstone in your car.
Great idea. On my 09 Civic, I love being able to see my exact speed without ever taking my eyes off the road.
Just need a remote way to answer calls. Might look silly to reach over my dash to hit the answer button.
in-car bluetooth, or bluetooth headset/earpiece. Bluetooth earpieces have a button to answer/end calls.
my 2011 Chevy Camaro SS has HUD its amazing
And even with that HUD your 2011 Camaro is still a POS.
lol i bet you own a KIA
Nope not a Kia. But I sure would take a Kia over one of those new Camaro POS.
Prob cant afford a Camaro SS or daddy and mommy wont buy you one so ur mad
Anyone who calls the Camaro a POS is just jealous! My 2010 Camaro 1LT/RS is absolutely amazing!!! =)
@tankgio I'm definitely jealous that you got HUD but this simple app is definitely a great trade-off and saves me money for a CAI and MRT 2.0 exhaust this summer. By the way, are you on Camaro5.com?
yup Tankgio on C5
Do NOT waste your $1 on this app. The display is not bright enough for daytime driving. High marks for the developer who tried to overcome the darkness issue by adding the color change feature. Irregardless though, I was unable to see the readout in sunny weather.
Works great at night though.
curtdennis, did you read the article?
"Irregardless", millworkman.
:)
To be honest and fair, no I did not. I use a HUD GPS in the business that I have videoing commercial vehicles for safe operations, ie: speed, lane usage, tail gating. I am always looking for ways to improve and was interested in this app. I would have liked to have seen the daytime limitation in the description and discovered it for myself only after purchasing the app. I was only trying to alert others that the limitation exists.
I would hope this is not literally a 'spanking new' app.
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webOS sure is cranking out the quality apps. hahahahah. who would ever want something like this anyways?
Oh wait... just noticed that it shows your altitude. That is something that I often need while I am driving a car on the ground. This app is totally useful now.
Hmmm...iPad 2 releasing apps like Garage Band and iMovie, we get a speedometer (which may cost more people speeding tickets and/or accidents than usual) What should I buy?
Another reason not to use it during the day is that I don't want a sun-melted Pre all over my dashboard.
This would be great...at night, on a flat dashboard, on a perfectly straight road and a steady speed. The phone isn't flat and how many dashboards are flat??? Does it come with Velcro? That would help. Who doesn't mind a little Velcro patch on their phone? There needs to be a category called Gag Apps. This app would be great in there. And it should be free. It's a funny app to show someone..."hey look at this!" But seriously, it should be free.
@crazyjeff: You must live in Kansas. Try Google to see why altitude can matter smart guy.
Smart guy... you are flat on the freaking road. It's not like you are going to go at a different level than what the road is at. Give me a good reason that I would need to know that.
If you live in an area where you travel through mountain foothills, altitude IS important. In the fall and spring (not to mention winter) it can be the difference between a chilly road and a frozen road.
Dude, it's not like everything is about YOU. If you don't need it, don't buy it - it's that simple. I don't think the developer will miss your measly buck.
To me, a program that tells you the title of a song you are listening to is pretty useless. But some people like that and if it makes them happy, it's cool.
Still... does it REALLY matter? Are you going to NOT drive on a road because it has a certain elevation? What are you going to do? "Oh **** my altitude is climbing, better turn around and search for a different route." No, you are just going to go ahead and do it.
Also... the song programs are free. This is a dollar, so it's not really a comparison.
You do understand that altitude more commonly refers to your vertical distance from sea level as opposed to your vertical distance from the road you're driving on?
Yes i do realize that. That's why the altitude of your car is pointless. You can't change the altitude of your car. It is whatever the road is. It's pointless to know this information, because you can't do anything about it.
Sure this app is limited to night time driving but for a $1 I think its kind of cool! I tried it last night and found that it was much safer to look at its output of speed/direction then looking down at the speedometer.
I highly recommend using the Touchstone as a base to keep it from sliding and at a good angle toward the windshield.
It would be really cool if this app could be extended to show navigation in a "wireframe" like format!