Microsoft's "Project Detroit" re-imagines car connectivity using Windows Phone

Microsoft has kicked off "Project Detroit", a concept car using diverse connected technologies including Windows Phone to give developers ideas for side by side generation automobiles.

Currently, Microsoft has embraced the SYNC/OVO system which curiously has little Windows Phone support at all. However, they are looking to change that with Project Detroit which extends Microsoft's vision for an all-connected future. The project is built off of Ford SYNC merely it incorporates just most everything Microsoft has control over including Kinect for Xbox 360, Xbox 360, Windows viii, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, and Bing.

The demo motorcar should also raise some eyebrows for fellow auto enthusiasts:

"To create Projection Detroit, a 2022 Ford Mustang with a 1967 fastback body, Microsoft teamed up with Ryan Friedlinghaus, an accolade-winning automotive designer based in Corona, Calif., and star of the Discovery Channel'south Velocity network reality Idiot box series "Within Westward Coast Community."

But as exciting is the Windows Phone app that was created to control everything in the machine,

"Using a Windows Phone, remotely watch and listen to the alive video stream and audio from the Kinects embedded in Project Detroit. From this aforementioned awarding, your Windows Phone becomes like a microphone for the car'southward external audio PA arrangement."

More than impressive is the power to command other added functionality to the car including the emphasis lighting, the horn sound "ringtone", activating the "projector screen" and sending a bulletin to the rear windshield all using the Windows Phone app.

While such a machine-system is merely for demonstration purposes, information technology really sets the imagination on fire thinking of all the different things i could do with a auto (and some money). We don't imagine Ford or other auto companies will be throwing all of these technologies in the car in the nearly future, but safe to say system like Microsoft Kinect equally they go miniaturized will be inserted into more and more than everyday applications. As well, with Windows 8 running on ARM processors, the ability to transplant these various systems should be easier equally time goes on.

To see "Project Detroit" in action, tune into Inside Due west Coast Customs Sunday, March 25 at 6 p.grand. PDT (9 p.yard. EDT).  Nosotros'll try to bring you the video when information technology goes up.

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