Audi Directly Integrates YouTube Into Select Dashboards – Digital Music News

Photo Credit: Damian OchrymowiczAudi owners can view live streams and news and enjoy creative content while charging or during driving breaks as the company directly integrates YouTube into select vehicle models’ infotainment systems.Audi is integrating YouTube into selected models’ infotainment dashboards. By embedding a new app store, customers can access popular third-party apps through the multimedia interface (MMI) through a data link in the vehicle. As a result, the YouTube app is available in the app store for Audi owners for the first time. Video streaming will launch in selected Audi models over the summer, with other VW Group brands to follow.Beginning this month, drivers of select Audi models can access their chosen content via the YouTube app in their vehicle’s infotainment system. The access is made possible by embedding the new app store, which Audi developed with Volkswagen’s software company CARIAD and its partner HARMAN Ignite. Enabled apps include music, video, gaming navigation, parking and charging, productivity, weather, and news, with apps such as YouTube installed directly in Audi’s MMI system rather than through a smartphone.After installing the app in the store, it appears in the MMI and is launched by tapping the icon. The app works just like the YouTube app
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