Steve65E-NC Posted April 14, 2014 Report Posted April 14, 2014 Now that these are available to the public $1500, it would be great to have a preliminary report on their use, or potential use, as a heads-up display. Moving map with weather while looking out for traffic. Anyone close to giving it a try? I assume an android tablet could be linked to display. Touch stuff lost for now: but still. Will this end the search for the perfect display mount? Quote
dcjohnst Posted April 15, 2014 Report Posted April 15, 2014 I go up to NYC this Friday for orientation. I'm not sure what it can do. My M20J has G500 and I'm wondering whether a bluetooth could be rigged either directly or through iPhone and into the glass. There is also a web app, CloudAhoy.com that might be useful, and there are some companies working on putting TCAS and other goodies in it. I don't think it would replace the glass panel, but would probably give you a few useful bits of information related to your phase of flight (t/o, landing, navigating restricted airspace, etc. I'm really into it so I'm eager to hear anything anybody's heard... Quote
DaV8or Posted April 15, 2014 Report Posted April 15, 2014 Well, my understanding now is there really aren't any aps for it yet. All I have seen anyone do with them is make videos. How useful the display feature is for aviation, depends on what passive info you would really want constantly displayed in your vision. The only thing that comes to mind for me is an AoA indicator. Maybe an attitude indicator. Most things are best left on the panel IMO. Quote
rbridges Posted April 15, 2014 Report Posted April 15, 2014 Well, my understanding now is there really aren't any aps for it yet. All I have seen anyone do with them is make videos. How useful the display feature is for aviation, depends on what passive info you would really want constantly displayed in your vision. The only thing that comes to mind for me is an AoA indicator. Maybe an attitude indicator. Most things are best left on the panel IMO. I thought the same thing, but after I drove a corvette with heads up display, it was almost inconvenient to look down at the dash. I know it sounds spoiled, but IMO it would be cool if I could get a legible, non-distracting display for things like heading, airspeed, vertical airspeed, etc. Quote
FloridaMan Posted April 16, 2014 Report Posted April 16, 2014 I had similar thoughts this morning with the release of it. I already have systems that aggregate weather and all of the domestic aviation data, a handful of iPhone apps and an Android app on the various marketplaces. I'm not sure if it's worth it to me to purchase the glass just to experiment with a first generation technology with such a limited userbase. For that sort of money, I would expect to be able to easily produce a more cost-effective dedicated heads-up display. Quote
Piloto Posted April 16, 2014 Report Posted April 16, 2014 One drawback that I see is how you interact with them? On a smart phone you select on the screen items and enter data but how would you do this with the glasses interactively. Like entering a flight plan or selecting different pages or just texting? Maybe pointing with your eyeball and blinking? José Quote
carusoam Posted April 16, 2014 Report Posted April 16, 2014 I would expect that it is wifi to a cell phone. The glass is mostly just display? Now, if it could be a heads-up display of key parameters... They would be known as my landing glasses! Air Speed and AOA would be fine. Best regards, -a- Quote
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