Hello and welcome to Uniti Update episode 11!
My name is Albin and this is Isak. and we
are following the process of developing Uniti
Sweden, an electric car startup
So Albin, what do we have in front of us in
this episode?
We are going to take a deep dive into the
software development of the heads-up display
and we are going to check out Lewis'
speech in Poland at Impact '17!
But first we want to show you some recent
developments, we have some new team members
here.
And they joined us just recently in different
areas like Marketing and Communications, Engineering,
Finance and different areas.
We have also developed a couple of different
test rigs to come up with the perfect combinations
of different sensors and different force feedback
inputs for the steering rig.
Furthermore we have started looking into a
really interesting material that you see here.
So we can go from being opaque to transparent
when you apply electricity.
And this could be used in the car, for example
in the roof.
The recent developments on the communications
side have also been that we are launching
a new website soon, which Kevin has been working
on.
We have also talked with a lot of suppliers
and have now received a lot of different HUB
motors which we are testing and trying for
the prototype.
We also received some batteries which we are
going to test and see if they are optimal
for our prototype.
So there you have some recent events here
at Uniti.
And now I want to know more about the head
tracking system and the perspective correction
we are developing for the HUD (heads-up display).
Well, the Software Team has been working rigorously
on developing software for the heads-up display.
So, one of the systems is object tracking.
So you can actually highlight objects that
come in front of the car on the wind screen
by tracking the object with cameras, however
the second technology is to make this picture
overlay perfect.
So you can augment the graphics onto the real
world.
And that is called perspective correction.
It uses head tracking technology to track
your head with a camera inside the car, so
that the graphic overlay is perfect over the
real world.
And these two technologies are going to be
integrated into one to get a perfect picture
of the graphic overlay of the real world.
That is pretty cool stuff and I think that
we should see what the Software Team has to
say about this.
So what we are looking at right now is an optic
recognition program which works using deep
learning.
And what we added to it this week is depth
sensing capability which uses a stereo camera to
see how far away from the camera each object
is and that enables whole perspective correction
which uses the other project which is head
tracking.
And hopefully I will be able to put it together
into a heads-up display demo to show augmented
reality this week.
What we implemented right now is basically
a solution that reliably tracks your face.
And it will change what the heads-up display
shows depending on from where you are looking
as a driver.
So those were the recent developments on the
software side of the heads-up display, and
we will keep you updated.
I heard that you were in Poland, Krakow, last
week, just over the day.
That is right, so we went to Impact ‘17
which is a big tech conference in Krakow.
So Lewis had a keynote speech about the difficulties
and problems with fossil fuel and the many
solutions that green technology and electric
cars can provide.
The speech is called "Breathe that shit in!"
and I think we should check out a little bit
of the speech right now.
It's a Doomsday speech.
It is called "Breathe that shit in!"
And a large cause of that pollution is a machine
that we have created, called the internal
combustion engine that we bring into the center
of our most densely populated places and it
just pumps that gas out into the air.
And I totally understand the wonderful advantages
that this combustion engine has given us over
time, but we are certainly not technologically
bound to this problem.
So that was Lewis' speech in Poland, Krakow,
at Impact ‘17.
And if you want to watch the entire speech,
there's a link in the description below to
a separate video.
That was all for this week and in the next
episode we are going to Israel to check out
some business developments and we are CNC-ing
out the entire exterior design in the scale
1:1.
If you have any ideas on what you want to
see in these videos please leave a comment
below.
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Thank you for watching!
