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XR Navigation & Information for Bikers

  • Writer: Olga Resnik
    Olga Resnik
  • Aug 19
  • 3 min read

In this posts' series, I explore how to match XR features to real-world use cases.

Let’s look at another example—how XR can serve as a navigation Head-Up Display (HUD) for bikers, ensuring they keep their eyes on the road while receiving crucial information.

A well-designed XR HUD can enhance biker safety by displaying critical dashboard data—such as speed, cautions, fuel level, and navigation directions—without forcing riders to glance away from the road. The goal is to minimize distractions while keeping all essential information within the rider’s natural field of view.

So, what features does an XR system need to achieve this?

Let’s dive in the XR Feature Analysis.


Use Case#3: XR Navigation & Information for Bikers 


🟩       Key Features


  • Display (Feature#1): Visual instructions are the most effective for cognitive perception, making a display feature essential.

  • AR Overlay (Feature#5): A transparent AR overlay ensures information is visible without obstructing the road or important signs. Natural real-world vision in combination with AR overlays assures that situational awareness is not compromised.


🟨       Trade-Offs & Optional Enhancements

Some decisions involve trade-offs and the design choices that can set up the basic functionality of your preference.


  • 3D Display (Feature#2): A 3D display can enhance depth perception but is an optional addition.

  • 3DoF tracking (Feature#9): To keep navigation data steady during head movements and provide Display Orientation Stability 3DoF tracking feature is an optional enhancement of user experience.

  • System Output (Feature#12): Alternative system-user communication via audio is a design trade-off (e.g., voice navigation or virtual driving assistance).


🟡 Optional Future Enhancements & Product Evolution

Beyond the core features, additional upgrades can be introduced gradually, allowing for a phased product development strategy that accelerates time to market and offers different product tiers.

Here is the list of features that can be introduced to future product developments.


  • Data storage (Feature#6): Integrated Road camera for video data storage can be added.

  • Smart Vision (Feature#7): AI-powered video processing can be helpful for objects recognition (lane markings, pedestrians, signs, vehicles, gas stations, etc.).

  • Super Vision (Feature#8): Multi-spectral imaging (infrared, thermal) can enhance visibility in low light, fog, or rain.

  • User Input (Feature#11): Voice control & fatigue detection via eye tracking can significantly enhance the user experience, and add functionality, thus not essential in the basic operation.

  • Multi-User Interaction (Feature#13): Rider-to-rider or instructor-to-student communication in group rides or driving schools also create additional values.


These features can be added step by step, creating an evolving product line that meets different market needs and budgets.


Too many optional features: Good or Bad?


One of the tools this analysis provides is the ability to map the features: what’s needed and what’s optional.

The optional features can be examined, played with and iterated, selecting the right combination that can help your product stand out and provide the overall experience that you envision.

This is a very powerful tool in the beginning of design stage, that helps to set architecture and strategy and select the right feature set to build and develop your product.

This use case is a great example, where you have many optional features to consider and create the right user experience.


XR Platform Design Partner


The XR for Bikers application is an extremely specialized application, so no existing hardware product cat fit integrally within this use case settings.

That's why you need to design the hardware XR platform tailored for this application. This may sound like a dead end, but here is where JOYA Team comes in, as an expert XR design partner that can cover this gap for you.

What we do is help companies design tailor-made products with the focused minimal feature set specifically needed for your use case.

Our vast experience in XR optical systems design and expertise in user experience translation to engineering can help to take your XR application idea and realize it in reality.

We can help you minimize the design effort and build your product gradually step-by-step starting from minimal feature set and gradually adding and expanding them working to reach the product development milestones, depending on project goals, budget, and time constraints.


Find out more about our experience in the AR Design field.


Contact us to learn more and develop your XR application together.



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