Too cool to be true?
I’m not too excited about current glass technology, but this looks fantastic. The pilot can look out, not down.
There are some videos there also:
That looks amazing!
Wow. This looks amazing. Will definitly keep this on my radar.
Unfortunately, these guys have shuttered the project. However, they have very eloquently put why this happened. Worth a read.
Very sad!
I think they did a nice try, tough I am very skeptical on innovation in aviation for B2C given the traditional consumer base or product offering (big portion of people are very skeptical on EFIS, lot of them struggle to switch ON their transponders and the vast majority are against Wingly cost sharing, so I don’t see how many will be putting AR avionics 
)
They could probably had more success with B2B partnership in the likes of Tesla/Nvidia in cars or Cirrus/Garmin in aircraft?
I’ve read their web page explanation of what happened and there is some weird stuff in there e.g. “subcontractor underperformance”. It is a bit too rich on corporate BS…
I also noticed “This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 674045.”. And they talk about VC funding. It is not untypical for grant and VC funded projects to throw huge amounts at subcontractors, because you have to deliver results which can be demonstrated to investors at agreed milestones (regardless of whether they are of any value to the company, and usually they aren’t due to the time and money wasted on building demos), and if these subcontractors don’t deliver the goods (which they often don’t because when somebody has a lot of money chucked at them, they tend to take life easy) then you blow the cash on that and run out. I’ve seen it, and lost considerable money of my own in such cases. In the meantime those who ran the outfit sent their kids to private schools, etc…
They EU money run out and the party is over.
I expect this car to fail in a similar way in the near future: https://www.uniti.earth/
They are all about “pre-sales, demos, shows, marketing, vision 2020, fancy videos, fancy websites” and most importantly no product currently for sale. I have actually seen their “demo-car” in person at a show they threw loads of investors’ money at. It’s a plexiglass shell with a Flintstones propulsion system.
I can smell the corporate BS in these companies from nautical miles away!
