The world of car design is constantly evolving, and Audi is at the forefront of innovation. In this article, we'll delve into the latest advancements in Audi's lighting technology, exploring new designs, features, and technologies that are set to revolutionize the way cars look and interact with their surroundings.

One area where Audi has made significant strides is in headlight design. For instance, on the Q4 Ron, customers can choose from a variety of LED patterns using the Intelligent Light System inside the cabin. This system allows drivers to personalize their lighting experience, but what's more interesting is the clever use of metal components within the headlight itself. These metal strips act as blinds, blocking out sun and ensuring that the light doesn't change shape when viewed from the side. Audi's designers have taken great care in crafting this feature, which not only enhances the visual appeal of their cars but also demonstrates a commitment to attention to detail.

Audi's light design team has also explored digital technology in their creative process. In fact, they used to rely on traditional methods like paper and pen to design lights. However, with the advent of digital tools, designers can now quickly prototype and test different concepts. The team's head of light design prefers this approach, but his staff often use digital software to facilitate faster development. To illustrate their capabilities, Audi has created a simple game projected by the car's headlights. This demo showcases the potential for future gaming experiences within cars, where drivers could control spacecraft around virtual tracks using the vehicle's lights.

Audi is not just focused on headlight technology; they're also exploring tail light innovations. The new A8 features LED tail lights with six different elements that can be changed from the infotainment system. This allows for a range of graphic displays, from simple shapes to more complex patterns. What's even more impressive is the potential for future designs, where up to 1,500 individual light elements could be used to create truly unique lighting signatures.

One particularly exciting development is the introduction of curved glass OLED panels, which are set to become a standard feature in Audi's upcoming models. These sleek panels not only produce beautiful, high-resolution projections but also provide reflected light, allowing drivers to see their surroundings without obstruction from their rearview mirror. While this technology may be initially reserved for Chinese market cars, it could potentially make its way onto European models in the future.

To further enhance the driving experience, Audi has developed a video game that can be projected onto a surface using the car's headlights. This demo showcases the team's capabilities and highlights the potential for innovative gaming experiences within cars. The idea is to partner with game developers to create engaging experiences that drivers can enjoy while charging their vehicles or sitting in front of them.

For now, this technology remains in its infancy, but it's clear that Audi's light design team is pushing the boundaries of what's possible. With their commitment to innovation and attention to detail, it's no wonder they're often at the forefront of automotive design trends. As we look to the future, one thing is certain: Audi will continue to captivate audiences with its stunning lighting designs and cutting-edge technologies.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the new Audi A6 Eon concept and when the production version of this car goes on sale in about 2 years time it could be available with very high-tech headlamps which can project video games for you to play on a wall and that's exactly what I'm going to do in this video I'm going to try out this new technology cuz I have control that's because I'm Matt Watson and you're watching car wow Buy sell car wow let's start this video by talking about the technology that makes being able to play video games with your car's headlights possible and it's this it's a Texas instrument micro mirror chip it's essentially the same technology that you get in your DLP projector at home for watching movies on so this sits in the car's headlight unit like that three LEDs send lighted it and there's 1.3 million little mirrors which can actually reflect the light exactly where you want it to go so it allows you to create images pictures or whatever I want to show you just how small these little mirrors are it's insane here we have a microscope and on the microscope slide is a human hair look you can see it there underneath the hair is that micro mirror module and if I change the focus you can actually see the individual little micro mirrors themselves and basically what you've got is 10 of those little micro mirrors make up the width of the hair you can get the new digital Matrix LED headlights on the rron and the A8 and they give you a really cool welcome signature when you get in the car or obviously when you get out of it it'll give you a goodbye animation as well that's just for a a bit of fun really though what you can also do is Project a carpet of light when you're driving down the motorway to help guide you and keep you in laying do you know what I thought it'd be a good idea to try out the system myself while driving so I'm in an AA hybrid I'm going to turn the digital Matrix LEDs on and what it should do is Project a carpet of light in front of me to help guide me and keep me in Lane another thing that it does which is quite interesting is if I need to indicat change lane it'll help guide me into the lane you see it swooping and I can move across and it then fill that lane before I get into it it's pretty cool another thing the system does is show some little markers on the road you may be able to see them just like little dashes and it shows you exactly your lane positioning now it appears that I kind of Drive slightly skew with in Lane so this is actually helping me out a bit it's quite funny and quite useful and if a car's broken down at the side of the road and the telematic system knows it it'll actually put a warning sign in that caret of light to just alert you of the potential danger anyway seeing as I'm on the all toe bar now and it's derestricted let's see if this system works at maximum speed what is the maximum speed that I can get to can I do the full 250 km an hour it's scary going this quick in the dark especially when someone pulls out and necessarily yes get out of the way out of my f it's quite quick this libr it's got 460 horsepower from its 3 l twin turbo V6 C to an electric motor 263 km an hour I think I'm backing off and the headlight system is still working to be fair this system is all about safety but how these Engineers want you to have a bit of fun with it hence the fact of using it for playing video games and I'll do that in a bit you see ad's always been an innovator in terms of headlight technology it was the first manufacturer to introduce white LED daytime running lights to a production car back in 2004 on the old A8 the daytime running light game has moved on quite a bit at Audi since those five LEDs per headlight for instance on the Q4 Ron you can choose between a few different designs of LED patterns you use the inment system inside the cabin one thing I didn't notice when I first reviewed this car was that built into the headlight is this bit of metal which actually acts a little bit like the blinds in your house used to block out sun and it means that when you view the car from the side it doesn't matter what pattern you've got there the headlight just looks the same all the time they do take a lot of consideration into headlight design over Audi but the way they're actually doing the design of the headlights has also changed as well as the lights themselves Audi's light designers used to design lights using good oldfashioned paper and pen in fact that was drawn by Audi's current head of light design and he he prefers this technology though his staff tend to use digital technology so they can quickly design lights like I've had a little go here and you'll just be able to display it now here look sort of of like a Pac-Man thing though you can have quite a bit of fun with this however I don't think this light design I'm going to try now is ever really going to take off but let's give it a go anyway I think I'll just leave that hanging there AUD isn't just about headlight technology it's also interested in tail light technology so the new A8 is available with o LED tail lights which actually have six different elements in so you can change the graphic display on the tail light from the infotainment system just like you can with the headlights on the Q4 look at that and this is so thin this light is created by a panel that is only 1 mm thick it is insane but it's getting even insaner or should that be more insane you see that A8 has eight of those panels so 8 * 6 that's 48 Different Light Elements from 2024 when the A6 Eon arrives you will be able to get a lighting signature at the rear that has 2 four panels with 60 different elements in so that's a total of 1,500 Light Elements and it means that you can do crazy stuff like this it's beautiful but I found something even more beautiful I'm not talking about cameraman leis have a look at this Audi plans to introduce curved glass OED panels it's like a work of art I want this in my house not just on my car but it's not just about about projected light it's also about reflected light have a look at this that is really cool you might be thinking wait a minute if you're the driving you try to look through your rear viiew mirror that's going to get in the way from that light system there but it's reflected look if I put my hand there it disappears I really like that and I'd like that if I was buying an Audi and it's going to be available this year it's been introduced on an all new car though that all new car is only going to be available in China eventually this technology might be available on European cars too I hope I love it it's just so simple and so cool so here we are then a world first playing a video game projected by a car's headlights now this particular game is actually been developed by Audi's light design team they're better at designing lights than games shall we say this is just for a demo really so let's have a little bit of a plate here we go so essentially what I'm going to do is control the spacecraft around this track now this is really quite a simple game however this system could be made available the technicians really want to make it happen and if enough customers say we want this they will put it on sale for sure and the idea will be that various game manufacturers just like with mobile phones will create games for the car and you can just imagine you know you're charging your Audi A6 Eon and you sit there in front of the car having a bit of a blast on the game it could be that you sat inside the car projecting onto a wall and using the car steering and brakes to play a driving game it's totally nuts I have never done this before and I'm amazed I'm playing a computer game using a car's headlamps it's utterly brilliant I'm surprised Tesla didn't come up with this idea it's very Elon Musk I do think that Audi's light design team should stick to making headlights and not programming computer games cuz this is a little bit $1999 anyway the tech though and the possibility is awesome hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like if you want to watch some more videos click on those windows there and if you click on that box there you can get a car wow for special surprise picked by me mthis is the new Audi A6 Eon concept and when the production version of this car goes on sale in about 2 years time it could be available with very high-tech headlamps which can project video games for you to play on a wall and that's exactly what I'm going to do in this video I'm going to try out this new technology cuz I have control that's because I'm Matt Watson and you're watching car wow Buy sell car wow let's start this video by talking about the technology that makes being able to play video games with your car's headlights possible and it's this it's a Texas instrument micro mirror chip it's essentially the same technology that you get in your DLP projector at home for watching movies on so this sits in the car's headlight unit like that three LEDs send lighted it and there's 1.3 million little mirrors which can actually reflect the light exactly where you want it to go so it allows you to create images pictures or whatever I want to show you just how small these little mirrors are it's insane here we have a microscope and on the microscope slide is a human hair look you can see it there underneath the hair is that micro mirror module and if I change the focus you can actually see the individual little micro mirrors themselves and basically what you've got is 10 of those little micro mirrors make up the width of the hair you can get the new digital Matrix LED headlights on the rron and the A8 and they give you a really cool welcome signature when you get in the car or obviously when you get out of it it'll give you a goodbye animation as well that's just for a a bit of fun really though what you can also do is Project a carpet of light when you're driving down the motorway to help guide you and keep you in laying do you know what I thought it'd be a good idea to try out the system myself while driving so I'm in an AA hybrid I'm going to turn the digital Matrix LEDs on and what it should do is Project a carpet of light in front of me to help guide me and keep me in Lane another thing that it does which is quite interesting is if I need to indicat change lane it'll help guide me into the lane you see it swooping and I can move across and it then fill that lane before I get into it it's pretty cool another thing the system does is show some little markers on the road you may be able to see them just like little dashes and it shows you exactly your lane positioning now it appears that I kind of Drive slightly skew with in Lane so this is actually helping me out a bit it's quite funny and quite useful and if a car's broken down at the side of the road and the telematic system knows it it'll actually put a warning sign in that caret of light to just alert you of the potential danger anyway seeing as I'm on the all toe bar now and it's derestricted let's see if this system works at maximum speed what is the maximum speed that I can get to can I do the full 250 km an hour it's scary going this quick in the dark especially when someone pulls out and necessarily yes get out of the way out of my f it's quite quick this libr it's got 460 horsepower from its 3 l twin turbo V6 C to an electric motor 263 km an hour I think I'm backing off and the headlight system is still working to be fair this system is all about safety but how these Engineers want you to have a bit of fun with it hence the fact of using it for playing video games and I'll do that in a bit you see ad's always been an innovator in terms of headlight technology it was the first manufacturer to introduce white LED daytime running lights to a production car back in 2004 on the old A8 the daytime running light game has moved on quite a bit at Audi since those five LEDs per headlight for instance on the Q4 Ron you can choose between a few different designs of LED patterns you use the inment system inside the cabin one thing I didn't notice when I first reviewed this car was that built into the headlight is this bit of metal which actually acts a little bit like the blinds in your house used to block out sun and it means that when you view the car from the side it doesn't matter what pattern you've got there the headlight just looks the same all the time they do take a lot of consideration into headlight design over Audi but the way they're actually doing the design of the headlights has also changed as well as the lights themselves Audi's light designers used to design lights using good oldfashioned paper and pen in fact that was drawn by Audi's current head of light design and he he prefers this technology though his staff tend to use digital technology so they can quickly design lights like I've had a little go here and you'll just be able to display it now here look sort of of like a Pac-Man thing though you can have quite a bit of fun with this however I don't think this light design I'm going to try now is ever really going to take off but let's give it a go anyway I think I'll just leave that hanging there AUD isn't just about headlight technology it's also interested in tail light technology so the new A8 is available with o LED tail lights which actually have six different elements in so you can change the graphic display on the tail light from the infotainment system just like you can with the headlights on the Q4 look at that and this is so thin this light is created by a panel that is only 1 mm thick it is insane but it's getting even insaner or should that be more insane you see that A8 has eight of those panels so 8 * 6 that's 48 Different Light Elements from 2024 when the A6 Eon arrives you will be able to get a lighting signature at the rear that has 2 four panels with 60 different elements in so that's a total of 1,500 Light Elements and it means that you can do crazy stuff like this it's beautiful but I found something even more beautiful I'm not talking about cameraman leis have a look at this Audi plans to introduce curved glass OED panels it's like a work of art I want this in my house not just on my car but it's not just about about projected light it's also about reflected light have a look at this that is really cool you might be thinking wait a minute if you're the driving you try to look through your rear viiew mirror that's going to get in the way from that light system there but it's reflected look if I put my hand there it disappears I really like that and I'd like that if I was buying an Audi and it's going to be available this year it's been introduced on an all new car though that all new car is only going to be available in China eventually this technology might be available on European cars too I hope I love it it's just so simple and so cool so here we are then a world first playing a video game projected by a car's headlights now this particular game is actually been developed by Audi's light design team they're better at designing lights than games shall we say this is just for a demo really so let's have a little bit of a plate here we go so essentially what I'm going to do is control the spacecraft around this track now this is really quite a simple game however this system could be made available the technicians really want to make it happen and if enough customers say we want this they will put it on sale for sure and the idea will be that various game manufacturers just like with mobile phones will create games for the car and you can just imagine you know you're charging your Audi A6 Eon and you sit there in front of the car having a bit of a blast on the game it could be that you sat inside the car projecting onto a wall and using the car steering and brakes to play a driving game it's totally nuts I have never done this before and I'm amazed I'm playing a computer game using a car's headlamps it's utterly brilliant I'm surprised Tesla didn't come up with this idea it's very Elon Musk I do think that Audi's light design team should stick to making headlights and not programming computer games cuz this is a little bit $1999 anyway the tech though and the possibility is awesome hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like if you want to watch some more videos click on those windows there and if you click on that box there you can get a car wow for special surprise picked by me m\n"