DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL ARCHITECTURE FOR VEHICLE HEAD UP DISPLAY

A vehicle includes a vehicle chassis that defines an in-cabin volume of the vehicle; a windshield mounted to the vehicle chassis; a dashboard including a dashboard interior volume that is separated from the in-cabin volume; a head-up display (HUD) reflector arranged within the dashboard interior volume; and an image generation unit configured to generate a plurality of pixel light beams corresponding to an image and transmit the plurality of pixel light beams on an optical path towards the HUD reflector. The image generation unit is arranged within the in-cabin volume and external to the dashboard interior volume. The HUD reflector is configured to receive the plurality of pixel light beams from the image generation unit and project the image onto the windshield by reflecting the plurality of pixel light beams back into the in-cabin volume and onto the windshield.