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Sony brings Fortnite to the car (bumper)
Where we drivin’? | Image: Sony
Sony and Honda’s in-development Afeela EV will let you display messages and images on its front bumper‚ according to a new video about the car‚ including the ability to... advertise video games.
You can see the screen-ified bumper — sorry‚ the “Media Bar” — starting at 3:17 in the video. The video does show some more sensible uses of the Media Bar‚ like displaying the name of the car‚ a red warning sign‚ or even a birthday greeting. But the video also shows how you can display logos for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse‚ Fortnite‚ and Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition‚ which is just ridiculous.
That’s not the only weird — and potentially distracting and dangerous — tech thing packed into the screen-filled car. One feature‚...
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