Volkswagen, Google, and nVidia, are working on an in-car navigation system that is 3-dimensional and more real looking than anything that’s available today. This system will display the route in a photorealistic way using images from Google Earth. Something that at least sound very interesting and a great improvement over the current available systems. According to reports this new technology was presented at CES but for a strange reason it went totally unnoticed. Imagine being able to see real photos of the POI (like restaurants, gas stations etc) in the nearby area.

This is going to be a real breakthrough in navigation and GPS systems if it delivers what is promised.

Driver and Passenger will be able to instinctively recognize where they are in relation to the surrounding topography, especially in urban areas that are depicted with depth and accurate size relationships between buildings and roads.

Via Geekzone

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