Munich/Las Vegas. On the Shopper Electronics Present (CES) in Las Vegas in 2023, the BMW Group shares its imaginative and prescient for the longer term digital expertise, each inside and out of doors the automobile. BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee futuristic mid-size sedan with a brand new and simplified design language. Title “Dee” It means Digital Emotional Expertise – and that is precisely what it is about: to create a fair stronger bond between folks and their automobiles going ahead. The digital capabilities of the longer term will go far past the voice management and driver help techniques we’re accustomed to right this moment. The BMW Head-Up-Show stretches throughout your entire width of the windscreen, supplying you with a glimpse into the subsequent technology of autos. Ranging from 2025, this innovation will happen in NEUE KLASSE fashions. The BMW Group has additionally improved its use of shade altering know-how. Introducing the BMW iX E Ink with Stream on the final CES, which might rework from black to white, BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee can now customise its exterior with as much as 32 colors.

“With the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee, we’re showcasing what is feasible when {hardware} and software program are mixed. On this means, we will faucet into the total potential of digitization to remodel the automotive into an clever journey companion. Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Administration of BMW AG, mentioned: The way forward for automotive producers and likewise of BMW: combining digital expertise with actual driving pleasure. “On the similar time, the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee is one other step on the street to NEUE KLASSE. With this imaginative and prescient, we glance to the longer term and underline the large significance of digitization for our future product generations.”

With its clever, nearly human capabilities, the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee accompanies drivers not solely in real-life conditions on the street, but in addition of their digital atmosphere.

“A BMW lives by its distinctive digital efficiency. “BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee is concerning the good integration of digital and bodily experiences,” mentioned Frank Weber, Member of the Administration Board for Improvement at BMW AG. “Whoever succeeds in integrating the shopper’s on a regular basis digital worlds into the automobile at each degree will reach mastering the way forward for automotive making.”

BMW Blended Actuality Slider: 5 steps to the digital world

The BMW Blended Actuality Slider together with the superior Head-up Show is the digital characteristic and central begin management of the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee. Utilizing shy tech sensors within the instrument cluster, drivers can resolve for themselves how a lot digital content material they wish to see on the superior Head-Up Show. The five-step choice ranges from analog to driving data, content material of the communication system, augmented actuality projection and entry into digital worlds. In parallel, dimmable home windows may also be used to steadily dim actuality. Blended actuality may be skilled within the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee in an immersive means that stimulates completely different senses with out the necessity for any further instruments, creating a brand new dimension of driving pleasure for the person.

Superior BMW Head-Up-Show: from 2025 at NEUE KLASSE

The BMW Group is named the pioneer of Head-Up-Show within the automotive business and has systematically developed this know-how over the previous twenty years. Within the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee, projection throughout your entire width of the windshield ensures that data is displayed on the most important attainable floor; this floor turns into detectable as a display solely when activated. On this means, the BMW Group demonstrates the large potential of projection know-how and BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee visualizes how a sophisticated Head-Up-Show can be utilized for show and working idea sooner or later. The usual manufacturing model of the BMW Head-up-Show spanning your entire width of the windscreen will likely be utilized in NEUE KLASSE fashions from 2025.

Welcome situation with sound and bodily icons

The digital expertise already begins exterior the automobile, with a customized welcome situation combining graphic parts, lighting and sound results. Pure language serves as the best, most intuitive type of interplay that gives wonderful understanding between people and their instruments. The headlights and closed BMW Kidney Grilles additionally create a standard phygital (mixture of bodily and digital) image on a uniform floor, permitting the automobile to supply completely different facial expressions. Because of this the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee can speak to folks and on the similar time visually specific moods akin to pleasure, shock or approval. The BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee can even challenge a picture of the driving force’s avatar onto the facet window to additional customise the welcome situation.

World premiere of full shade E Ink know-how

Following the spectacular launch of the BMW iX Stream with E Ink at CES 2022, the BMW Group is now showcasing a full shade model of its E Ink know-how within the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee. for the primary time worldwide.

As a substitute of merely switching between black and white, the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee now shows a multi-coloured, totally variable and individually configurable exterior. An ePaper movie from BMW Group’s collaborative associate E Ink was utilized to the physique to create this magical shade rendering. As much as 32 colours may be displayed.

The physique floor of the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee is split into 240 E Ink segments, every of which is individually managed. This enables an nearly limitless number of patterns to be created and modified in seconds. The laser reducing course of and digital management design used to trim the movies had been developed in partnership with E Ink. Adapting this know-how to curved surfaces and programming animations was developed by BMW Group’s in-house engineers and enabled a type of customization distinctive to the automotive business worldwide.

Decreasing design – in and out
The design of the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee has been intentionally shortened to focus consideration on the digital expertise and DNA of the BMW model. The outside is outlined by the basic three-box sedan design, which is the core of the BMW model. Conventional design parts such because the BMW kidney grille, the twin round headlights and the Hofmeister curvature have been redesigned with bodily icons that change analog parts. This provides the BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee its personal digital but human character.

Inside, digitization goes hand in hand with the decreasing use of supplies, working controls and screens to make sure that nothing takes away from the digital expertise and the brand new feeling of enhanced driving pleasure. The unconventional design of the steering wheel, the central vertical lever, creates contact factors that come to life when approached or touched, and may be operated with a flick of the thumb. These bodily touchpoints management the number of content material projected onto the windshield and, along with the Head-Up Show, assist the ‘arms on the wheel, eyes on the street’ precept.

“With BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee, we present how the automotive may be seamlessly built-in into your digital life and change into a dependable journey companion. “The automobile itself turns into your portal to the digital world the place the driving force is at all times in management,” mentioned Adrian van Hooydonk, Head of BMW Group Design. “When utilized appropriately, know-how will create invaluable experiences, make you a greater driver, and easily carry folks and machines nearer collectively.”

One other milestone on the best way to NEUE KLASSE

The way forward for the BMW Group is electrical, round and digital. The BMW i Imaginative and prescient Dee represents the digital facet of this trio and will likely be one other milestone on the street to the subsequent automobile technology, the NEUE KLASSE. All through 2023, the BMW Group will current additional insights and concepts concerning the revolutionary automobile idea from NEUE KLASSE.