Researchers Suggest WIndshield Display Technology May Do More Harm Than Good

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychology suggest that current augmented-reality heads-up display (AR-HUD) technology poses a safety threat. In a recent study published in PLOS ONE, Professor Ian Spence and his students Yuechuan Sun and Sijing Wu identified a gap in scientific research with regards to the allocation of visual attention.
Specifically, in the distribution of attentional resources during tasks involving stimuli that are non-contiguous, but spatially commingled. Use of AR-HUD requires commingled division of visual attention.