[xarball]

I need to play devil's advocate here -- and hoping everyone will stop and think about this in a more practical way for a minute. This has less to do with VR/AR, and more to do with pre-existing overlap:

o What if Tesla is interested in improving sensory accuracy for its self-driving vehicle program?

o What if Tesla is interested in Hololens' pixel greying on transparent surfaces?

This seems like the most viable use of this kind of tech in a car. In an extreme case I could see something like head/eye tracking on the windshield, though that isn't in any way guaranteed or even necessarily practically useful.

Improving external sensor accuracy, or even pixel shading on transparent surfaces, however, is probably a FAR bigger overlap between Hololens and Telsa, than anything for augmented reality. Hololens has immense requirements for sensory precision and pixel blacking, and I could see why Tesla would look to an industry expert to carry over any useful architectural guidance for that.

[monk_e_boy]

My guess is two things:

1. Factory. Highly customised cars will require a very flexible workforce. Much easier to do by equipping each worker with a hololens

2. Inside the car - turn all the flat surfaces into displays. No headmounting glasses needed. In a driverless car those big windows are ideal for projecting things onto.