RealVNC adds "iPod Out" so cars can display iOS device screen data
While a number of automakers have integrated iPod/iPhone control functionality, many of them have implemented rather clunky user interfaces. VNC Mobile will allow the actual iOS interface, including Cover Flow or even Google Maps, to be displayed directly on the larger in-dash touchscreen in the car. This way, a user could just use the larger display to manage what they are listening to without fumbling with the iPod or iPhone. The new version uses the "iPod Out" feature that Apple has built into the latest versions of iOS to provide this capability. Check out the video in the second half of the post.
Update: The video actually shows the capability of the VNC software to display the output of a smartphone using a Nokia N900. RealVNC is utilizing the newly implemented capabilities in iOs 4.1 to do the same thing.
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RealVNC, the company behind the original VNC remote computing protocol, has added iOS to the list of devices that are supported by its VNC...
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This was originally discovered way back in April.
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/12/iphone-os-4-0-secrets-hidden-ipod-application-hints-at-automobi/
BMW has also announced something in regards to this. http://www.macworld.com/article/152658/2010/07/bmw_ipodout.html
I am really curious why there aren't more details as to how all of this works. Any developers out there that have more info??
If the "iPod out" API in iOS4 allows the user to control the iPod from the car's touchscreen, what is the need for VNC for users with iPhone? Is VNC necessary only for other phones which don't have an "iPod out" type feature?
November 01 2010 at 8:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyso how do i get this in my car?
will this be integrated by car manufacturers? after market head units?
How is it that car manufacturers and after-market producers today are so far behind technology? Did all the innovation in car audio end in the 80's?
October 28 2010 at 2:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe video displays the solution, but not the iPhone specific one. The iPhone specific solution is new, whereas the video is from March 8th 2010, which is why they are demonstrating it with a Nokia N97.
I am a little confused, though. I know for a fact that there is no way that a VNC server would be allowed in the App Store, because this would have to run at a different shell level that partner apps are allowed to run.
This announcement seems to indicate that there is already an integrated iOS "Out" interface that works over USB that they have been allowed to use. This is news to me, and probably most everybody else. I know that it exists, because that is how they demo the iPhone during the Apple Events. I didn't realize that Apple allows development around this. This is the part I would like to see investigated more by TUAW.
i agree 100 %!! what is this mythical iphone (vnc) out?? is it something specific just for cars?
October 28 2010 at 3:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat am I missing? Is it just me, or are no iOS devices present in the video?
October 28 2010 at 2:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat's the name of that blue wheel scroll thing there?
October 28 2010 at 2:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt is called a Griffin Powermate.
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate
Why does that phone not look like an iphone?
October 28 2010 at 2:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replythe video is totally misleading, it was a bad choice. it even says that they're not developing for iOS in it. the video shows an N97. should have just taken the screenshot from the source article, but that would have been even more plagaristic, right?
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