The companies envision a number of potential use cases for extended-reality (XR) devices in vehicles in addition to gaming. Other uses include assisting the driver in locating their car in a crowded parking lot to alerting them to hazards on the road and revealing important information about the vehicle’s condition.

Project Jabiru has many interesting features, but three stand out: the ability to detect invisible black ice on the road ahead, a subtle but effective anti-distraction mode that doesn’t scold and a new way of alerting drivers that isn’t annoying.

Continental says that for the first time, its driver-monitoring camera provides three key functions in one package: reliable driver authentication and the option of making secure digital payment transactions via the vehicle display, for example in parking garages, at toll stations or in app stores – in addition to standard driver-attention monitoring.

Forvia’s Jacuzzi car seat simulation is a home run for consumer appeal and the modular design offers major advantages for OEMs and dealers. Modular design also is claimed to offer up to 55% lower CO2 emissions and up to 40% more recycled content than a seat in production today.

Stuck with a design vocabulary that is dated and distracting, new technologies are being unleashed to create new features and capabilities.

Concept vehicles being rolled out at CES are going to reflect a new reality from what we expected before COVID changed the world.