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Toyota’s New App For Oculus Rift Replicates Distracted Driving

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Toyota's New App For Oculus Rift Replicates Distracted Driving What’s got virtual reality to do with driving? Most definitely it is not a good idea to put on an Oculus Rift headset while driving. But Toyota found a way to bridge the gap between the two. Toyota’s new app for Oculus Rift virtual reality aimes to raise awareness regarding “distracted driving” risks. So the app is to be used when bikers and drivers are safely off the road.

As a parent, there’s presumably nothing more worrisome than seeing your teens in the driver’s seat. You think about the possibility that they’re not cautious. Do they comprehend that streets are brimming with diversions? You imagine that they play music loudly and can’t hear what’s happening around them.

Toyota teamed up with Facebook’s Oculus Rift and decided to tackle these issues. Announced at the Detroit Auto Show, the Teendrive365 app is boasted as a “distracted driving test system”. The application encourages individuals to drive securely in the midst of distractions from virtual instant messages, travelers, radio tuning and traffic clamor.

Toyota has set up the program and Oculus Rift equipment in a stationary auto on its booth at the show.  Visitors are able to drive virtually utilizing the auto’s wheel and pedals, and the headset’s screen will display the outcomes of their virtual driving focus. The application is a piece of a more extensive campaign to advance awareness of diversions while driving, which Toyota started at the end of 2013. The organization intends to take the VR edition on tour to auto shows over the US in the following months.

Toyota’s corporate marketing chief Marjorie Schussel made a few statements at the launch of the app.  She remarked that Oculus Rift gives a VR driving experience that replicates real-life in front of the wheel.  She also noted that the app offer the company the possibility of a unique and effective approach to show teenagers and parents how common distractions can influence their capacity to drive safely.

Teendrive365 is only one of the increasing numbers of apps being created for Oculus Rift that go past the gadget’s origins in gaming, from music-production applications for physically-handicapped kids to applications that unwind apprehensive patients in healing centers or help treat post-traumatic anxiety issue in troopers.

The headset’s creator, Oculus VR, was purchased by Facebook for $2bn in 2014. For the time being, Oculus Rift is just accessible in developers’ editions. However the organization is planning to dispatch its first buyer version before the end of 2015.

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GM, Interested In Partnering Up With Google On Self-Driving Cars

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GM, interested In Partnering Google On Self-Driving Cars General Motors carmaker is interested in partnering up with Google to design the new era of autonomous car technology, according a recent statement by  GM’s Chief Technical Officer Jon Lauckner at the Detroit Auto Show.

Even if Lauckner did not clearly stated that GM is pondering an independent drive collaboration with Google, he said that he strongly believes that GM is “absolutely open to talk about” new-gen autonomous driving engineering with Google.

GM is already working at a self-driving innovation. Despite the fact that it is not aggressively searching for a tech accomplice, it is exceedingly likely that the carmaker will be ready to work with Google to roll out autonomous vehicles to consumers market.  Google, an organization popular for online browsing, the Android operating system, Maps and Chrome, isn’t looking to become an automaker. For that reason, the company needs a partner to venture with and get independent autos on the market. Google also said in a release a couple of weeks ago that it was searching for collaborators in the auto industry.  The tech company strives to bring autonomous vehicles to the roads. As such, GM’s alleged enthusiasm for working with Google is probably based on the fact that Google has charted a great many miles of road time on its autonomous car since  2010, when it initially uncovered that it was taking a shot at self-driving innovations.

GM representative Dan Flores also made some recent statements regarding a hypothetical collaboration with Google.  He mentioned that the two companies have also partnered on previous ventures.  He also remarked that GM officials discussed with Google many topics and they are willing to have similar talks in the future. However, he stated that GM would negotiate with any tech company with potentially interesting innovations.

According to Flores, GM plans to retail self-driving cars in about `15 years but the auto revolution might happen as early as five years from now. GM is already only two years away from revealing the Cadillac CT6, an auto that will come with GM’s new Super Cruise engineering that introduces some partial self-driving features, added Flores.

Super Cruise is a driver-backed innovation that would let the driver remove his/her hands from the wheel and his/her foot from the gas with the auto keeping up its speed and direction. Incorporated with the 2017 Cadillac CT6, Super Cruise is not intended for anything besides expressway driving, Flores noted. The new model is scheduled for market launch in late 2016. GM has been developing self-driving engineering for around five years.

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