what’s a spectacularly horrible thought? With the ability to management an actual automotive with a PlayStation DualSense controller. Yup, that’s an actual factor now. Throughout Sony’s CES 2024 press convention, the Japanese tech big took one big leap into the preoccupied realms of “whether or not they may” by exhibiting off the power to drive a automotive with a PS5 peripheral.
Sony and Honda have connected behind the storage and produced one thing referred to as the AFEELA, the hot-garbage identify for a newfangled AV automotive that stops simply in need of remodeling right into a killer robotic. Its astonishing ultra-mega-widescreen sprint makes a Tesla’s insides appear to be an ‘80s Apple IIe, whereas the outside appears based mostly on if Knight Rider’s KITT have been a household saloon.
The web site reads just like the projectile vomit of a thousand company executives, saying issues like (and I promise that is actual), “AFEELA powers unparalleled intelligence, remembering, speaking, defending, and galvanizing individuals.”
Simply in case this didn’t already sound just like the preamble in a dystopian sci-fi about vehicles that take over the world, terribly Sony and Honda are declaring that they’re “in collaboration with Microsoft” to license Azure OpenAI as a “conversational private agent,” for all these instances you want your automotive to simply make shit up based mostly on issues it scraped off of Reddit.
That is, to simply hammer this all dwelling, a (prototype) automotive that boasts it has the power to make use of Unreal Engine-driven AR on its huge sprint screens to make it appear to be there are precise colossal monsters stomping down the highway in entrance of you as you drive. I’M NOT MAKING THAT UP.
Anyway, this automotive—which is bound to be the final in subscription-locked options—apparently may also be managed by your DualSense controller, as a result of there was room for yet one more horrible thought. Honda’s president Izumi Kawanishi took to the stage at CES, and drove the automotive onto the stage utilizing the controller, though fortunately burdened that at this level it was solely a tech demo. Nonetheless, don’t let any fears be assuaged, as Sony added that its partnering with Polyphony Digital—the in-house builders who make the Gran Turismo video games—to “carry collectively digital and real-world experiences.”
Sure, I admit it, if somebody gave me the chance to take a seat excessive on some mountain, and remotely management an empty automotive on an enormous monitor by way of a PS5 controller in a race in opposition to my associates, I’d completely do this. I’d intentionally crash so a lot, however I’d be there. However pricey god, I shouldn’t be allowed to.