As someone who doesn't own a car anymore I was fairly shocked recently at some of the stuff that you find in current BMWs. They do have a HUD-like navigation that's a windshield layover for example. I know they do quite a bit of HCI research. I'll be curious to see how many Tesla employees will pop up at CHI next time around. I think there's some interesting research to be done automotive AR...especially if there's an automated driving component.
Tesla hires HoloLens designer from Microsoft augmented reality program
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Re: Tesla hires HoloLens designer from Microsoft augmented reality program
#12Display on a car's flat windshield as opposed to the Hololens pair of glasses that is essentially around your eyes looks interesting (challenging).
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#13Tesla is leading the market like Apple did with it introduced iPhone. They define the standards which others follow.
I think they are very good at taking things others more or less meddled in with little efford/interest in improvements and perfecting it (by applying a more software oriented approach). It's a doubly nice strategy as there's some talent basically waiting to be hired away to work on stuff they have championed (often falling on deaf ears). AR is a bit different since that's interesting to work on and other companies are more invested.
E-vehicles were a thing but mostly a bothersome side project for most car makers. Space was cost+ and noone really cared to upset that cozy environment etc.
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#14I hope this means that we will have new posts on Andrew's blog (Minimally Minimal). Microsoft asked him to remove nearly all of his new posts related to design thus some of his last articles (e.g. about the Xbox One S) have been online only for a week or so.
Ah thats why. I loved that blog.
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#15The employee in question is also the person that made that [Microsoft rebrand concept](http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/2012/7/3/the-next-micro...) from a while back.
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#16Everyone here is focused on what this means for Tesla, but this may be intelligence on what is going on with the Microsoft HoloLens program if senior staff is beginning to jump ship.
What's going to happen with HoloLens? The team doesn't appear to be very large, and it's been stuck in research-land for a while now.
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#17Tesla is leading the market like Apple did with it introduced iPhone. They define the standards which others follow.
I think they are very good at taking things others more or less meddled in with little efford/interest in improvements and perfecting it (by applying a more software oriented approach). It's a doubly nice strategy as there's some talent basically waiting to be hired away to work on stuff they have championed (often falling on deaf ears). AR is a bit different since that's interesting to work on and other companies ar…
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Re: Tesla hires HoloLens designer from Microsoft augmented reality program
#18Musk's businesses may be spread too thin. The Solar City merger was iffy; that's a bet Solar City can beat China on solar panel price. Tesla needs to get their production line for the Model 3 going. They need to develop self-driving that works in the real world. The Gigafactory battery factory, which right now just has the battery assembly line moved from Fremont, needs to be finished. Space-X needs to get their laun…
You forgot to mention the 4400 satellite internet constellation he is planning. Now i do get the sense that his businesses are spread a little too thin, but most of his businesses are pack leaders in what they are doing. He definitely sets overly optimistic goals but that happens when you are developing new technologies that no-one has done before.
He's definitely pushing the technology on a lot of fronts. It would help if at least one of the businesses was a cash cow. But none of them are, yet. Space-X ought to be - they're the lowest cost launch provider. But they're having trouble building and launching enough Falcon 9 rockets to bring in the money.
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#19He also worked on the Xbox One S and is pretty much the most interesting product designer around now. Microsoft should have kept him.
Re: Tesla hires HoloLens designer from Microsoft augmented reality program
#20Everyone here is focused on what this means for Tesla, but this may be intelligence on what is going on with the Microsoft HoloLens program if senior staff is beginning to jump ship. What's going to happen with HoloLens? The team doesn't appear to be very large, and it's been stuck in research-land for a while now.
He's a visual and product designer. HoloLens has already been designed, so I wouldn't be sure how much he was still needed for the product.
Contrary to some others here I also don't think this means that Tesla is going AR. Or at least, I doubt Kim would help much there.