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now what's the future of head-up displays Mercedes will put this to you dice dynamic and intuitive control experience it's a mock-up here of a future vehicle but look what this does you see the entire windscreen is being used as a head-up display things can appear anywhere in your field of view not the limited space that we see in cars today interacting with it is also much more immersive your hand can create this sort of cursor on the screen you see as a grid of dots so you know where it sees your intention by your hand movement I can put my hand over this restaurant let's say I'll get information about it I might see a message coming for one of my contacts I can push to read it I can draw down to save it into my main dash or i can go sideways to discard it for the moment the big idea here is to take the HUD make it expansive but not make it virtual reality that would blow out your view it remains augmented reality but with a full scope of vision so you're still looking where you would look anyway as a driver the sizes of head-up displays will get larger and larger and as you get into let's say a space where you can do AG meant its reality you know features and innovation like we have shown here in this dice and it's dynamic and intuitive control experience will be possible this is very natural and very intuitive you don't only have to learn a lot of new behaviors in terms of where your eyes go you just learn some new gestures instead and of course the fact that we are augmenting reality is a trend that's bubbling up all over the place in consumer electronics to be especially able to project the images you know further away from the car because at the end of the day drivers are still driving themselves and that should be the primary task now you may recall Mercedes has been showing google glass integrated with their cars but they don't see you using that while driving the main reason why we do not want customers actually to use it while driving is we cannot control what is being projected on that screen we would never allow any information or anything to be distracting you while driving instead Mercedes see something like glass as a pre Drive informational tool and then perhaps a last block navigational tool after you park and arrive additionally it's not completely in your field of view so that means you would have to look away from the road edmunds.com has done a survey of the market that suggests the number of cars with head-up display will have nearly tripled in the last five years up to nearly 40 models in 2014