Volvo Wants to Make Windshields Into Huge Display Screens

The technological advances found in modern vehicles would have been unthinkable 25 years ago. Seeing how fast things are progressing, one can only imagine what tomorrow will look like.

The folks at Volvo are looking at a technology that could revolutionize... the windshield. The Swedish automaker is financing start-up company Spectralics, which is working on the development of a process that could transform car windshields into huge screens.

The amount of the investment, made by Volvo through its Volvo Cars Tech Fund branch, was not disclosed.

Spectralics, based in Israel, has developed what it calls a Multi-Layer Thin Combiner (MLTC). This is a film that can be applied to transparent surfaces, such as windshields.

The MLTC film allows images to be projected onto surfaces, which could create a large head-up display for the driver where virtual objects would be superimposed on the real view that the windshield provides, according to Volvo. This could create a more immersive version of the augmented reality head-up display that Mercedes-Benz launched with its S-Class sedan for 2021.

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