Gadgetory

this is Chris from The Verge and I'm standing in front of the BMW eye vision future interaction concept that's a mouthful all you really need to know is that it's an IH Spyder that they put a bunch of crazy technology inside of so it has a new instrument cluster that is 3d it kind of has two levels one on top of the other it's kind of hard to explain there's a 21 inch display in front of the passenger and the way the driver interacts with that display is where it gets really cool because you just kind of wave your hand around in space and when you point it something on the display the car knows you're pointing at it and then you can kind of push to select it or you can touch the steering wheel to select it your choice unfortunately this is a static demo it's not actually working on this car but you can kind of get the idea of what they're going for and obviously diet is a production car this is just without a roof now BMW is a few other things here as well there is a helmet for motorcycle riders that has a heads-up display built into it there's a window in front of one of the riders eyes and you can show a bunch of different information in that you can show collision avoidance warnings speed fuel phone notifications that sort of thing it's powered by two batteries that give you about five hours of life they're also showing a connected year now this is a physical mirror a pretty large where they would go and say your bathroom or the employer of your house and it shows status of your car so you can see where the car is right now you can see the camera inside of it you can see the surroundings and you can select different routes if say you need to go to work in the morning you can choose to browse your computer and modes of transportation see how long they take so this car this is wider that I'm standing in front of is brought together with your smartphones or thing the BMW is calling BMW connected which isn't very google-able but you'll just have to trust me that's what it's called but basically this this app gives you a bunch of insight into what the car is doing battery level fuel range that sort of thing you can summon the car to you if it's autonomous you can send the car away if it needs to be parked and that brings me to the final demo of BMW at CES 2016 which is that they're showing an i3 a self-parking i3 which we actually saw at CES 2015 but the difference is that this time around it's gesture controlled to cause the car to park itself so you wear a SmartWatch and when you get out of the car there's a gesture you kind of wave the car away and it parks itself in a spot so kind of a parlor trick no reason you can't just press a button on your watch or your phone or your key fob to park the car but still pretty cool so that's about it from BMW at CES 2016 a lot more CES coverage coming up today and later this week so stay tuned and subscribe to our youtube channel at the birds