We are reflecting on the enriching experiences of Car.HMI Europe 2023. This year we showcased a brand new project in collaboration with three other companies. In this blog post we will explore AI-FusionX and why you should be keeping an eye on this new demonstrator project.
Introducing AI-FusionX
AI-FusionX is the outcome of a collaborative effort among L2Concept, Factory Unit, Incari, and Dynaudio. It merges advanced designs, technical capabilities, and high-fidelity audio systems to create a fully immersive experience. The demonstrator exemplifies the future of HMI design through the integration of intricate seat control mechanisms, advanced illumination systems, state-of-the-art display units, and high-fidelity audio setups. This results in an encompassing, vivid, and intuitive interaction experience that showcases the potential of AI in HMI design.
This partnership prioritizes user experience in its HMI solution by combining intuitive controls, immersive visuals, and high-quality audio to deliver a seamless and engaging interaction for users. Its versatility extends across multiple domains, including automotive cabins, gaming interfaces, and smart homes. With the Incari platform streamlining development processes, reducing dependence on extensive programming, and bringing significant time and cost savings during development and future iterations, this collaboration demonstrates the transformative power of uniting an intuitive HMI development platform, seamless hardware integration, and cross-company expertise. It not only accelerates development processes but also enhances the user experience, opening doors to versatile applications in various industries.
Car.HMI Europe 2023
Car.HMI Europe 2023 is a leading international platform for automotive HMI and UX development. It brings together industry leaders to present and discuss innovative technologies, trends, and challenges in this field. The conference offers a range of formats, including case studies, interactive sessions, networking opportunities, and expert talks, all aimed at accelerating innovation and driving the future of HMI development. With a focus on collaboration, it provides an ideal setting for interactive learning, peer networking, and exploring novel HMI solutions.
AI-FusionX sets the stage for continuous innovation and development in the world of HMI, offering exciting possibilities and a promising future. Stay tuned to our news page for updates on this project and other advancements from Incari.
With each new release of our HMI development platform Incari Studio, we work to optimize, improve and extend our tools and features. While the primary features of this release have been widely discussed are a ton of noteworthy secondary features that are worth exploring. This blog post gives you a closer look at some of these extensions and optimizations and how they improve the HMI creation workflow.
Innovative collaboration to combine leading-edge software design and high-quality audio systems for tailored in-car audio experiences at the click of a mouse.
Skanderborg, Denmark; Berlin, Germany – June 12, 2023
Dynaudio, the innovative high-end loudspeaker manufacturer from Denmark, has teamed up with Incari – leader in automotive HMI (Human/Machine Interface) development – to bring top-quality tailored sound experiences to vehicle designers… without the cost and time previously needed to create them.
For over 30 years Dynaudio has been bringing its professional studio and home-speaker expertise to the automotive industry with partners such as Volkswagen, Volvo, Bugatti, BYD, and Xpeng.
Incari Studio is an intuitive development platform for developers, engineers, and designers. By utilizing node-based logic people with all skill levels can easily and intuitively create complex HMIs that focus on creativity and a holistic experience.
The partnership between Dynaudio and Incari empowers HMI developers to redefine in-car audio experiences. With Dynaudio’s smart amplifiers and Incari Studio’s control capabilities, a new horizon of personalized audio profiles and voice control has opened up. The synergistic integration within vehicle systems paves the way for a holistic entertainment suite, adaptive to real-time conditions such as luggage load, seat positions, and environmental noises. With potential enhancements from emergent technologies like Artificial Intelligence, the partnership promises continual innovation.
Trust in the system
The flexibility of car HMI configuration, often executed under stringent deadlines, demands trusted, streamlined solutions. The Dynaudio-Incari partnership eliminates complexity, providing a drag-and-drop system adaptable to specific model requirements without coding. Additionally, empowering vehicle manufacturers to sculpt their brand’s distinct persona and establish unique selling propositions, all while significantly reducing design-stage costs.
“Our partnership celebrates a shared focus on quality, innovation, and user-centered design that heralds an era of joint advancements. By integrating Dynaudio’s superior audio technology into our platform, we’re empowering users to incorporate Europe’s finest audio components into their HMI systems seamlessly,” says Alexander Grasse, Chief Sales Officer at Incari.
“Incari Studio’s modular architecture supports the entire UI-UX creation process, making interaction with sound a direct component of the car’s overall driving experience. For manufacturers, it means the topic of audio is almost automatically integrated directly into a new vehicle’s conception. And that means drastically reduced development time and cost, combined with tailored systems… and, of course, Dynaudio’s legendary performance from the amplifier and loudspeakers,” says Eike Peter Frost, Director, Automotive Business Development at Dynaudio.
The Dynaudio-Incari partnership will be unveiled at this year’s Car HMI Europe show in Berlin, from June 18-20. Incari will be showing its immersive demonstrator – which mimics a car interior to demonstrate the next generation of in-car experiences. A Dynaudio API implemented into Incari Studio will be released later this year.
About Dynaudio Dynaudio was founded in 1977 in Skanderborg, Denmark. Today, it’s recognized as a leading manufacturer of high-quality audio systems, and one of the world’s most distinguished high-end audio companies. Dynaudio designs, engineers, and manufactures dedicated systems for professional studios, as well as car audio and home hi-fi and consumer loudspeaker products, from its state-of-the-art facility in Denmark. The company is particularly recognized for its advanced driver technology designed, engineered, and continuously developed in-house, not to mention its furniture-grade, handcrafted Danish cabinetry.
Dynaudio contact Eike Peter Frost Director, Automotive Business Development E: T: +49 4183 972 052
About Incari Incari is a Berlin-based global technology and software company. Their state-of-the-art no-code development platform eliminates the need for extensive coding expertise and creates a low barrier entry level. Incari Studio enables seamless integration across all departments, from design to engineering. Its intuitive user interface and steep learning curve allow users to start implementing projects within days. The development time can be reduced by up to 70%, leading to significant resource reduction and optimized productivity.Selected as one of the initial 50 start-ups shaping the digital future of Europe by Emmanuel Macron as part of Scale-up Europe, Incari is revolutionizing the Human Machine Interface.
Incari contact Robin Lemmen
Marketing Team Lead E: T: +49 176 22541415
With each new release of our HMI development platform Incari Studio, we work to optimize, improve and extend our tools and features. While the primary features of this release have been widely discussed are a ton of noteworthy secondary features that are worth exploring. This blog post gives you a closer look at some of these extensions and optimizations and how they improve the HMI creation workflow.
Extended communication protocols
In today’s rapidly advancing technological landscape, communication protocols play a vital role in enabling seamless integration and data exchange in industrial and IoT applications. Our Communication Protocols are designed to enable communication between your project and external devices and systems. The protocol defines the communication rules, syntax, and semantics ensuring understandable and structured data exchanges.
Incari Studio 2022.2 supports an extended variety of Communication Protocols, such as:
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol communicates between web servers and clients allowing for the exchange of data and information across the internet.
MQTT: Message Queuing Telemetry Transport supports communicating between devices and is commonly used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
CAN: Controller Area Networks are often used in embedded systems for real-time communication between various devices.
MAVLink: Micro Air Vehicle Link is a lightweight protocol developed for communication between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground control systems (GCSs).
Serial: This protocol allows users to connect to serial devices such as a GPS through USB or serial ports.
Socket.IO: This protocol is a JavaScript library that enables real-time bidirectional communication between servers and web clients.
UDP: User Datagram Protocol operates at the transport layer of the Internet Protocol (IP) suite. It allows host communication to occur with other hosts that are a part of the IP network.
The use of protocols is vital in allowing for seamless integration and data exchange in industrial and IoT applications. Read more about incorporating our communication protocols here.
Extended nodes
Incari Studio Nodes are elements in the Logic Editor that represent different logical operations or data types. The Logic Editor is a visual programming interface used for creating custom behaviors and interactions within Incari Studio. With each release, we aim to extend and optimize our nodes to give you more and improved functionalities.
Mouse Event Nodes: Mouse Nodes are a powerful toolbox of interactive elements enabling users to easily create interactive and responsive applications with mouse-based input. For example, you could create a button that changes color when the mouse hovers over it or a slider that adjusts its value based on the position of the mouse cursor.
Input and Output Nodes: IONodes allow users to interact with external systems and data sources, enabling a range of powerful integrations and workflows. Quickly connect to and extract data from databases, files, APIs, and other sources, and then manipulate that data within their Incari Studio workflows. New nodes include getting the current directory, getting file extensions, removing objects, and listing directory contents.
Structure of objects in a scene
The SceneObjects are the building blocks of your project. They now follow a tree-like structure. Each object, except the RootObject, has a parent and can have children. This allows any object to be placed under another object as its child. The Root Object functions as the parent of all Objects.
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, Incari Studio 2022.2 has everything you need to take your creative endeavors to the next level. Share your feedback with the community over on the Incari Forum. Excited to start working with Incari Studio? Download your 30-day free trial now or reach out to our sales team for more information on our enterprise plan.
The Incari Studio 2022.2 release marks the biggest release of the development platform, to date. More than twelve new features and dozens of optimizations. In this blog post, we will review some additional new tools and updates to help you get the most out of our software.
A new and improved camera system
Introducing the new camera system of Incari Studio 2022.2 for increased freedom and creativity. Unlike previous versions, where you only had one default camera, now you have access to an unlimited number of cameras in your scene.
Each cameraobject can control the angle and perspective of what’s shown on the screen, just like any other object within Incari Studio. With our innovative picture-in-picture view in Incari Player, you can easily preview your work in progress and fine-tune your camera angles for maximum impact. Creating cameras in your scene has never been easier, as it can be managed seamlessly within the sceneoutliner and controlled using intuitive cameranodes. The attributeeditor allows you to fine-tune your camera configuration to achieve the desired look and feel. With this new system, you are also able to animate your cameras and bring your scenes to life like never before. Simply select the desired cameras and animate them in the order you prefer to create dynamic and engaging scenes.
Scene audio objects
Transform your user interface and make it more engaging with our newly introduced audio objects feature. You can seamlessly upload a range of .mp3 audio files, including music, speech recordings, and notification sounds, to bring your designs to life. To get started, select “create” in the scene outliner and then choose “audio.” You can upload your desired .mp3 audio file and begin using it in your designs. Detailed guidance is available in our full documentation to help you leverage audio objects to create immersive and interactive designs that will keep your users engaged and coming back for more.
Custom shader editor
Take your 3D modeling to the next level with Incari Studio’s custom shader editor. Our wide range of physically based rendering materials defines lighting rules based on 3D imagery through a physical understanding of light transportation. This results in more realistic and accurate models. If you can’t find your desired material within our library, our custom shader editor allows you to create and upload your own materials. Access the shader editor next to the asset manager and define your material with custom controls and data range validation. This feature gives you the flexibility to achieve the desired look and feel for your models.
Lottie
Lottie is a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)-based file format that provides several benefits when implementing animations, including smaller file sizes, faster loading and shipping times, and the ability to scale without pixelation. They can also help brands express their personality in creative ways. In Incari Studio, Lottie files are converted into code through logic. To learn more about the advantages of using Lottie, check out our extensive blog post here.
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Incari and MILES Mobility are joining forces to research the opportunities and benefits of customized experiences in carsharing. How can individualized user experiences be brought into the carsharing space?
Ownership is no longer a priority
Carsharing is a form of car rental that offers increased flexibility compared to traditional car rentals. Drivers can rent a vehicle for short periods of time up to several days, completely digitally via an app.
MILES mobility, Germany’s largest car-sharing provider, offers its users a pricing model based on the number of kilometers driven, but also provides hourly and daily packages. Consumers have access to vehicles of various sizes and models throughout the city that can be easily rented and parked. Some additional benefits of this economic model are:
increased environmental friendliness
decreased individual traffic
cost-effectiveness
less air pollution
Another significant benefit is less parking stress.
Disrupting the handling and processing of user data
User data is valuable for many different reasons but should always be handled with care and discretion. In a new research project, Incari and MILES Mobility will analyze how this data can be utilized to personalize the driver experience when changing vehicles. In our 2023 trend analysis CEO Osman Dumbuya and CSO Alexander Grasse discussed the increased demand for personalized software-driven mobility experiences.
“Due to the diversity of vehicles and their individual complexity, it is repeatedly a challenge for a user to quickly find his or her way around a new vehicle and feel comfortable with it. We’re also looking into how customer data is handled and secured through trusted third parties so that it is not made available to the open market”.
MILES Mobility is the largest dynamic carsharing company in Germany. Active since 2016, the corporation has grown to more than 1 million registered users with over 13.000 vehicles at its user’s disposal. MILES Mobility is committed to providing reliable and convenient transportation options. As the company continues to grow and innovate, it is sure to play an increasingly important role in the evolving landscape of urban transportation across Europe and beyond.
For more information about this project and to hear from Incari’s CEO you can read Auto Future’s article on How Car-Sharing can Benefit From Integrating Personalisation. Be the first to know about the findings of Incari and MILES Mobility’s research project by subscribing to the Incari newsletter. You can also find us on Twitter and LinkedIn for regular updates.
Incari Studio 2022.2 is available for downloading now. This release brings you plenty of new features focussed on increasing work flexibility, efficiency, and creativity. In this blog post, we are sitting down with Abdallah Huballah, Incari’s CTO, to learn more about these new features and how Incari Studio is changing the game for HMI solutions.
Hi Abdallah, can you tell us more about Incari Studio 2022.2?
The release of Incari Studio 2022.2 is our most feature-packed release to date. Our team worked tirelessly for months. We introduced features such as Nested Prefabs, Post Effects, a 2D workflow, and a new camera system. In addition, we have implemented a tagging system, Lottie integration, and support for Virtual and Mixed Reality.
But that is not everything. Alongside new features, we also dedicated a lot of time to enhancing older functionalities and optimizing performance and stability. Our main goal for this launch was to help users, from designers to developers, accomplish their tasks with even higher efficiency and elegantly.
What feature are you personally most excited about for users to play around with?
I would say the 2D workflow because it is a major addition to the software. It has so many benefits, and I am excited for people to start exploring the new workflow. Human Machine Interfaces are still largely done in 2D. The 2D workflow is pixel-perfect, easy to understand, and highly performant. Another thing that is very cool is the interoperability with design tools such as Figma, Canva, and Photoshop.
With this new workflow, we are introducing 2D scenes with smooth integration into 3D environments. It was important to us that we didn’t limit our users to either 2D or 3D. We aim to maximize results for our users.
Another addition is Nested Prefabs. What is this feature about and what are the benefits?
This feature increases flexibility and creates a more organized workspace. A Nested Prefab is a Prefab instance stored within another Prefab. One benefit is that you can build larger and more complex systems. You can maintain Prefab references in another Prefab, providing increased usability flexibility to accommodate operations and structural changes.
How will these new features help creatives and developers build stronger and sounder HMI solutions?
Several features focus on simplifying tedious tasks. Nested Prefabs, for example, is a game changer for repetitive tasks. Expanded support for tools such as Lottie makes importing and reusing existing assets into Incari Studio even easier. Another thing we spent a lot of time on was optimizing the Incari Player runtime. The startup time has decreased significantly, making our player highly performant.
Do you have any words of advice for HMI designers that would like to start using Incari Studio?
We have a 30-day free trial available for everyone so that beginners and experts alike can test our development platform. I would say the best way to get started is to simply go for it. Incari Studio is designed to help and support everyone’s unique and personal journey. We always keep ease of use in mind making for a very shallow learning curve. New users are able to accomplish very complex tasks in no time with our software. We also offer a range of demo projects on Incari Hub, where you can get inspiration or find a basic project to build on.
Can you tell us anything about future releases for Incari Studio?
There are a lot of things that we would like to implement into Incari Studio in the future. For our next release, we will continue to work on the 2D workflow and apply improvements. We want to add importers for design tools and improve our 3D capabilities. Of course, we will always look to improve the performance of both Incari Studio and Incari Player. These are only a few of the things we are planning. I can’t yet give away anything more, so stay tuned to find out more.
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Berlin, 01. March 2023 – The Berlin-based global software and technology company Incari announced the latest release of its application development platform, Incari Studio.
With the largest update to date, Incari Studio 2022.2 offers more features for greater creativity, reduced complexities, and increased output. Incari allows users to investigate new ways to create, experience, and implement HMI solutions. The software platform, which requires no coding experience to use, provides tools for logic coding, 3D animation, and technology integration to complement and optimize the entire User Interface and User Experience creation process.
With Incari Studio 2022.2 many significant improvements have been made in terms of usability and extended with exciting new features. Features such as:
Nested Prefabs
Post Effects
Extended Reality
A 2D workflow
Haptics input types
But there are plenty more functionalities and optimizations to increase the use of-use and help its users create the next generation of HMI solutions.
Incari GmbH
Incari is a Berlin-based global technology and software company specialized in Human Machine Interactions. Established in 2011, Incari’s state-of-the-art low-code platform eliminates the need for coding and reduces the average development time by more than 70%. Selected as one of the initial 50 start-ups shaping the digital future of Europe by Emmanuel Macron as part of Scale-up Europe, Incari is revolutionizing the Human Machine Interface and shaping the digital future of our planet.
Looks matter in design. A visually appealing user interface efficiently maximizes the user experience. Incari Studio has all the needed tools to make sure your project is as beautiful as it is functional. With the 2022.2 preview release, we introduced post effects to enrich your work quickly and efficiently.
Easily create high-quality visuals
A post effect, also commonly known as a post-processing effect, is a visual effect that is placed over an object, scene, or image. Post effects visually manipulate light and darkness. Once applied, it will change the appearance of the selected component or scene. This operation occurs after the frame has been rendered. The effect interacts with the color value of each pixel to create the desired result.
Incari Studio 2022.2 – Post effect flare
Introducing Incari Studio post effects
With the 2022.2 release of Incari Studio, we have now added the possibility to employ post effects in your project. Here are the two main post effects that we have introduced:
Bloom Bloom relates to light exposure and creates the effect of light bleeding onto surrounding areas and objects. Highlights over a specific threshold are blurred and brightened. The borders of these bright areas get a fringed or feathered light look.
Lens flare Lens flares are rings or circles that provide a haze to your image or scene. This flare happens when a bright light source shines directly into the camera lens.
With future releases, we will continue to add new post effects to help you create even higher-quality visuals to stimulate the user experience and optimize your user interface designs.
Incari Studio 2022.2 – Post effect bloom
Quickly and easily apply your post effects
Using the new Incari post effects is simple. To see all settings go to Global Preferences and open the View Port tab. Afterward, select Screens and now you can apply the desired post effect in your Attribute Manager. You can also add a drop shadow or glow effect by using a vector effect. You can manage the vector styling easily and adjust them to your needs in the Attribute Editor.
Incari increases efficiency and quality
Post effects elevate the look and feel of your design. By utilizing Incari Studio, your HMI projects will be reduced up to 70% in average development time.
Download your 30-day free trial of Incari Studio 2022.2 here. Looking to work together with Incari on your latest HMI project? Are you looking to work together with Incari on your latest HMI project? Reach out to our sales team for more information on our enterprise plan.
Creating an organized digital workspace is key for productivity and internal overview. Our Incari Studio 2022.2 release promotes increased structure, and seamless workflows through tagging.
Every person has their own preferred workflow. The creation of HMI solutions involves a lot of different team members and departments. Tagging and grouping metadata makes applying operations and filtering much more organized and straightforward, regardless of your department and role within a project.
Metadata: the matriarch of all things data
Metadata refers to data containing information about other data. Metadata is a summary of various pieces of data.
Accommodating changes and workflow optimization
Tagging provides a simple way of assigning labels to objects within your scene. A tag creates a relationship between them. If you are, for example, looking for objects with shared properties, you can efficiently search in the logic and filter based on their communal tag.
Assigning tags is done in the Attribute Editor. Filtering and applying changes can now be done quickly and efficiently in your project logic. Select the objects within your scene that you want to alter by selecting their shared tag and applying the changes. The rest of your scene will stay unaffected.
Creating efficiency and simplicity with Incari Studio
Whether you are a designer, engineer, or supplier, Incari Studio has been developed to be used by everyone. No coding knowledge is needed, just a creative problem-solving mindset. The new Tagging system complements the seamless workflow between all teams and departments.
Download your 30-day free trial of Incari Studio here. Looking to work together with Incari on your latest HMI project? Reach out to our sales team for more information on our enterprise plan.
Immersive tech is becoming indispensable for meeting both developmental and consumer-facing needs. That is why Incari Studio 2022.2 now supports Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality. Find out why we believe this new feature is a must.
Staying ahead of the curve
A rapidly growing trend is the implementation of Extended Reality (XR) within the Mobility Industry. XR can optimize and improve prototype testing, self-driving car trials, operative training, and showroom experiences.
The who, the what, and the why
Extended reality is the collective name for computer-generated environments that combine the real- and virtual world. Under this umbrella term falls Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR). Here is a brief summary of each immersive reality:
Virtual Reality: VR is fully immersive. Your senses are triggered to believe that you are in a completely new environment.
Augmented Reality: AR enhances the real world by layering visual elements over the physical world.
Mixed Reality: In MR the real world merges with a virtual one, creating a hybrid. In MR the real and the virtual worlds, elements and objects can interact to create a fully immersive experience.
Optimizing sustainability, road safety, and budgets
Utilizing Extended Reality is beneficial at various stages. Use Incari Studio 2022.2 to take your HMI projects to the next level by integrating Virtual and Mixed Reality. No coding knowledge is needed. To demonstrate why we believe this to be so, here are some ways that we feel VR and MR can contribute to a variety of processes:
Virtual prototyping
Saving money, resources, and time. User Interface prototyping is time and cost-intensive. Instead of relying on real-world physical prototypes, you can use digital twins* to interact with your product in the virtual world. Bug testing, visual evaluations, and more no longer require a fully produced physical prototype. Create your UI in Incari Studio and test each element ahead of construction.
Training
Training for pilots and drivers, for example, often requires scenarios that cannot be recreated in real life. Extended reality makes it possible to create simulations in which even life-threatening situations can be tested.
Vehicle maintenance
New tech can mean increased complexity when it comes to vehicles. Porsche is already using AR glasses to decrease its service resolution time as technicians can see a vehicle’s diagrammatic on top of the physical car for quicker and more precise troubleshooting.
Immersive showrooms
A hands-on, top-tier showroom experience is a great tool to help in the sales process. By combining a car seat prototype and a VR headset you can provide your customer with a 3D and 360-degree virtual tour of any new vehicle. If customizations are available, you can apply changes to the XR prototype and have the customer review them in real time.
Incari Studi is moving into another universe
We see and understand the possibilities and benefits of Extended Reality in HMI solutions. Incari Studio 2022.2 supports Varjo API and OpenXR and is optimized for both Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality. In future releases, Augmented Reality will also be sustained.
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