Originally Posted by TerminatorX5

here is another thing - it seemed that the factory also was envisioning a front camera, in addition to the rear view camera - i can't think of a link, but it was on the forums, someone either got it retrofitted or had the original specs.

you can tell, the cameras were expensive then, like the flat screen LCDs, so the factory solution was to run a V-shaped mirror/prism to achive left/right view of the sides of the car. Now they just stick two cameras on either of the fenders and call it done...

What I wonder, if there is a video software that can fuse three video images into one video output to achieve the "new" bird-eye view... In other words, have a camera from left of the car (say, mounted in the left mirror), regular rear camera and the camera from the right mirror send three video feeds to a "box", and then from the "box" we get the fused video feed that is fed into the rear view camera input in the Tv module. What the "box" will do is to take an image from side camera, crop it accordingly, also crop the middle camera and then have all three aligned together - basically same thing that the OEM topview does now.