AU Optronics, as a leading supplier of Display HMI solutions, will showcase its Smart Cockpit at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, USA, from January 7th to 10th, together with its subsidiary BHTC. Under the core theme of "Infinite Future, Unlimited Possibilities," the showcase will present a new vision for future mobility. The next-generation AU Optronics Smart Cockpit 2025 integrates superior Micro LED display effects, a user-friendly operating experience, and groundbreaking automotive computing solutions, refining a smart cockpit solution that breaks through traditional thinking. This inspires new concepts in in-vehicle design, bringing passengers an unprecedented mobile experience and moving towards an immersive, boundless cockpit experience, as if transported to another world.
AU Optronics CEO and General Manager, Ko Fu-Jen, stated, "With the booming development of smart cockpits and in-vehicle infotainment systems, future vehicles will undergo further transformations, elevating information, entertainment, connectivity, and security to a whole new level. AU Optronics, combining its leading display technology with BHTC's extensive automotive HMI solutions, provides comprehensive smart mobility services. Through innovative technology and superior integration capabilities, we empower an extraordinary future mobility experience, becoming a crucial key for automakers to differentiate themselves and strive for success."
AUO embodies its vision for the future of mobility, breaking through traditional frameworks and revolutionizing the way human-machine interfaces are presented in the cockpit, showcasing advanced and diverse information and entertainment applications. AUO's new Smart Cockpit 2025, a pioneering smart cockpit, incorporates a series of industry-leading automotive Micro LED Display HMI solutions covering sunroofs, side windows, center consoles, and steering wheels. Leveraging the transparency, large-scale, and flexibility of Micro LED advanced display technology, it redefines the design concept of the smart cockpit, expanding human-machine interaction. Furthermore, through automotive computing solutions, it extends applications in AI and connected vehicles, creating a seamless driving experience. Through comprehensive smart mobility services, it brings a safer, more comfortable, smarter, and more entertaining cockpit experience for drivers and passengers.
AU Optronics showcased a range of industry-leading Micro LED Display HMI solutions at Smart Cockpit 2025. Among them, the Virtual Sky Canopy is the world's first application of a large-size, transparent Micro LED display in a skylight, delivering a boundless, immersive experience.
Micro LED Inspires Innovative Applications in Smart Cockpits: Immersive Entertainment with the Virtual Sky Canopy <br /> AU Optronics (AUO) pushes the boundaries of automotive intelligence, pioneering the seamless integration of Micro LED transparent displays into a large-area "Virtual Sky Canopy" and the "XR Interactive Window," integrating touch, sensing, and other multi-functional experiences, revealing a new face of human-machine interaction in smart cockpits. AUO combines the sunroof with technology and art to enhance the immersive experience, and through the linkage with the side windows, it allows users to experience a changing spectrum like a surround theater, extending the interior space into a boundless fantasy world. The transparency of the sunroof and side windows can also be adjusted, allowing drivers and passengers to enjoy various entertainment options while maintaining safety and privacy, achieving anti-peeping and sunshade effects.
AUO has created a versatile Morphing Center Control with a user-friendly design. When not in use, it displays information on a flat surface. When operated, the display dynamically rises and transforms into 3D physical buttons with haptic feedback, showcasing a new human-computer interaction experience.
Display HMI's Human-Centered Design Drives Upgraded Interactive Experience, Integrating Driving and Car into One <br /> In addition to offering more entertainment and business experiences, the future smart cockpit will prioritize safety. To enhance a more intuitive driving experience, AUO and BHTC jointly developed the "Morphing Center Control." When not in use, it displays a flat image; when operated, the display dynamically rises, transforming into 3D physical buttons that support various control methods. Utilizing the flexibility of Micro LED displays, it improves the smoothness of human-machine interaction, thereby enhancing driving safety. In control mode, the driver can easily operate various in-vehicle functions, such as switching driving modes, adjusting gears, controlling the air conditioning, and managing the entertainment system, enabling quick switching between different functions.
AUO's hidden intelligent driving interface, Foldable Cruise Pilot, can be partially retracted in manual driving mode to display information such as mileage and speed; in autonomous driving mode, it can be fully extended to provide in-car entertainment functions.
Meanwhile, AUO has incorporated a "Foldable Cruise Pilot" interface into its smart cockpit, combining sophisticated motion mechanisms and Micro LED display technology to allow drivers to seamlessly switch between manual and autonomous driving modes. The steering wheel and display can be folded and changed modes as needed, while maintaining high-definition display quality. In manual driving mode, the display is partially folded, providing essential driving information such as speed and mileage; while in autonomous driving mode, it can be fully unfolded to provide multimedia entertainment functions such as audio-visual entertainment, shopping, and conferencing, transforming the vehicle into a mobile space and converting time into greater productivity.
AUO's in-vehicle computing solution powers the XR Interactive Window, which not only allows users to play virtual augmented reality games, but will also enable them to select objects of interest outside the cabin and directly search for information in the future.
AUO is venturing into edge computing, developing human-machine interface and AIoT automotive computing solutions . Targeting the "software-defined vehicle" trend, AUO leverages its strong foundation in Display HMI solutions to drive innovative human-machine interfaces integrated with the cockpit, thereby meeting user needs and developing edge computing capabilities to provide highly integrated and interconnected computing solutions, giving smart cockpits more comprehensive services. AUO's newly unveiled "In-vehicle Computing" solution supports stable system integration of display human-machine interfaces, software services, and AI artificial intelligence. It can simultaneously drive and connect multiple displays, sensors, and devices within the vehicle, meeting the needs of audio-visual entertainment, voice assistants, and AI driving assistance displays, creating a comprehensive smart cockpit environment and a better, safer driving experience.
AUO's Horizon Image Glass integrates the dashboard, center console, and passenger display through a vehicle computing solution, providing a unified panoramic view and offering passengers a clear forward view, essential driving information, and entertainment functions.
AUO has integrated its newly developed automotive computing solution into Smart Cockpit 2025, unlocking the "XR Interactive Window" in the rear seats. Through AI, the solution automatically generates calculations, allowing passengers to interact with and access related information simply by selecting objects of interest on the window. This provides passengers with an immersive, interactive, and realistic experience, or extends to mixed reality games, showcasing powerful computing capabilities. Simultaneously, the solution utilizes the "Horizon Image Glass" to seamlessly integrate the dashboard, center console, and passenger-side display, offering a panoramic view and real-time vehicle status, navigation, and traffic information. It also provides personalized settings and driving safety warnings as added value.
Facing the rapid innovation of the future automotive industry, AUO is committed to putting people at the core. Through Display HMI solutions, automotive computing solutions and software services, AUO helps cockpit designs realize innovative ideas, strengthens the intelligent collaboration between "people, vehicles and roads", creates smart cockpit differentiation, continues to lead products into the market, promotes new intelligent driving and mobility experiences, and becomes a strong support for customers to lead the market.
