A little face on your A-pillar.

HALO is a round 1.28-inch screen with a rotary knob, for the base of your A-pillar or on the dashboard. With an avatar that never sits still, Spotify within reach and, soon, your route.

Keep me posted

Turn the knob.

This is the real HALO software, running in your browser. Pick a mood, a country or music and watch what it does.

Mood

Country

On the road

It never sits still.

The avatar breathes, blinks and looks around. It has a mood for rain, frost, traffic jams and the night, celebrates King's Day and Christmas, and bobs to the beat as soon as your music starts.

Render of the HALO housing in three-quarter view, with the round screen, the knob and the OLED

At the base of your A-pillar.

Render of HALO at the base of the A-pillar, seen from the driver's seat

The housing wraps around the pillar, with the round screen turned towards you, the knob under your thumb and room for an optional OLED. Rather on the dashboard? Then it sits in the universal holder.

One knob. Everything in it.

Spotify without your phone.
The cover, the title and the artist sit on the round screen. Turn the knob and you skip straight to the next track.
A new outfit per country.
Cross a border and the avatar changes clothes. A hat in Germany, something else in Italy: twenty-seven countries, each with a theme of its own.
Turn, press, done.
The knob takes you through your status pages. A short boot chime plays when it starts, and an optional OLED keeps a strip of data beside it.
The HALO app.
Pair your iPhone over Bluetooth. Install updates, set the brightness, adjust the avatar and pick your themes.
Make it yours.
A baby-blue face, green eyes, a purple arc or red and black. You choose it in the app and HALO takes it over straight away.

HALODrive

Map on the round screen: turn right in 80 metres onto Kerkstraat

Map on the round screen: roundabout, second exit in 100 metres

Coming soon: your route on the round screen, with the avatar looking towards the turn.

Drive together, share the route.

HALO Drive is built to replace Wheelz: you plan in the app and drive with HALO.

Turn-by-turn on the round screen: Arrow, distance and street name, roundabouts with the right exit, and a new route when you leave it.
The avatar looks ahead: From 300 metres out it turns its head towards the turn, and the closer you get, the further it looks.
Friends and convoy: See where your friends are driving and stay together as a group on the way to the same place.
Share routes as GPX: Import a drive someone else has planned, or export your own route to pass it on.

The HALO app with a route: Stationsweg in 350 metres, 12.4 km to go

Questions

Will HALO fit my car?: HALO is designed for the base of the A-pillar. If that does not suit your car, the universal holder puts it on the dashboard instead.
What is inside?: A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, a round 1.28-inch screen and a knob you can also press. Next to it there is room for an optional OLED.
What does HALO do with my location?: Your iPhone only shares your location with HALO while the Pi is connected. When HALO is off or out of range, sharing stops.
Do I need a phone?: The avatar and its moods run on HALO itself. For Spotify, updates and your settings you use the HALO app for iOS.
How does HALO get updates?: Through the app. Every release is signed, and HALO checks that signature before it installs anything.
What is HALO Drive?: The next part of HALO: a map with turn-by-turn guidance on the round screen, driving with friends in convoy and sharing routes as GPX. It is on its way.

A face for your car.

Send a short email and you will hear when HALO is ready.