Mercedes-Benz Unveiled “The Future Shape Of Multimedia”: COMAND Online

Mercedes-Benz introduced the first fully integrated telematics in the automotive sector in 1993, when the system of communication and navigation (CNS premiered at the S-Class, after it became the voice system LINGUATRONIC control and the first color screen 16:9 2002. Now something new is complete this line: Internet access in vehicles Mercedes-Benz

The company, in TecTalk their "@ commands", showed how the engineers at Mercedes-Benz multimedia foresee the future near and far, in order to maintain this leading role in telematics and infotainment. "Our vision can be summarized in four key concepts of an" integrated experience "," natural interaction "," perfect sense "and" easy to use remote control, "explains Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bharat Balasubramanian, vice president of Product Innovation Process Technologies Research Group at the Advanced Engineering at Daimler AG.

Mercedes-Benz will be expanding the range of integrated applications for the momentum online COMAND multimedia system, for example, and offering numerous applications in all facets of the digital lifestyle.

Since the fall of 2011 new applications for the Facebook network ™ Online, Google Street View ™ and Google ™ Panoramio available. New applications can use all the customers who drive a Mercedes-Benz COMAND online.

The multimedia system COMAND online, available on the SLK, Class C, Class E, CLS, and the autumn, the new M-Class and B-Class, now offers Internet access for the first time.

As indicated in the "Concept A-CLASS" study (Shanghai, 2011, graphic design content of the screen also become increasingly important in the future. "We are also researching 3D displays. Tridimensional allow screen presentations the information to be absorbed more intuitive, "Balasubramanian says. "This recognition easier and faster warnings is an improvement in road safety."

Of course, security is very important, so that the operation will also be more intuitive in the future, voice control that covers most of the functions, with the help of gestures and touch. "For us as pioneers of safety, it is important that the driver is not distracted in any way. Rather, the goal is to improve the ability of driver safety through improved ease of use," says Balasubramanian.

We can go further with examples of "natural interaction", which include menu control via gestures or handwriting recognition (whereby the user traces a finger over the display on the head unit.

In the future the driver will be able to decide at the breakfast table or in the office which content or apps he wish to have on board, by carrying out corresponding pre-configurations via smartphone or PC.

The first such application to have been realised is the option offered by COMAND Online of downloading a route which has been configured on a PC beforehand using Google Maps and transmitted to the car.

A few months after the launch of the new multimedia generation, Mercedes-Benz is extending the range of integrated apps: new apps for the Facebook™ online network, for Google™ Streetview and Google™ Panoramio will be available for COMAND Online from this autumn. Streetview enables locations all over the world to be seen in 360-degree perspective views and at street level. Panoramio allows access to millions of photographs which have been taken and uploaded by other users at locations all around the globe. Streetview and Panoramio thus provide comprehensive means of studying routes and checking out sights and destinations before embarking on a journey.

Additional apps which have already been introduced are Google™ Local Search and Weather and the facility for downloading a route which has previously been configured on a PC using Google Maps and transmitted to the car.

The high-resolution colour display has a diagonal of 17.8 cm. Photos can be shown on the large screen and turned over manually, as in a slide show. Where the audio equipment is concerned, too, new types of representation bring a fresh look and more convenient operation.

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