‘I’ve seen the future’
THIS FIRST-TO-MARKET HEAD UP DISPLAY (HUD) is astonishingly clever, and equally flawed. What’s good about it: navigation, communication, high definition action camera and media player, all in one. Stuck on your lid and all visible in a crystal-clear display, right in front of your right eye and overlaid on the ‘real’ road. The interface is incredibly well designed, easy to set-up and use, and it is controlled via a glove-friendly, bar-mounted joystick and smartphone app. Video quality is on par with anything the competition have to offer. What’s not so good: it is very heavy, and mounts to your lid’s chin bar. You notice the pull and drag less at high speed when wind is pushing your head up, but it’s still a problem. Getting the display in the right position is difficult because it needs a flat surface to stick to and most helmets have some sort of sculpted, aero-efficient shaping that means it never quite feels right. Before a software update fixed it, the max volume for voice and music was set well below nav instructions, so you couldn’t hear any of it. The navigation is rudimentary compared with a full-blown sat nav, but it’s good enough to get you there. The main issue though is the price. 600 notes is a big chunk and if you’ve already got a sat-nav, bluetooth headset or action camera, it’s hard to make a case for this.