Sony VISION-S, the '' intelligent '' electric car that allows you (also) to play with the PlayStation

Source: HW Upgrade added 12th Jan 2021

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Sony has taken its VISION-S concept, presented for the first time at last year’s CES. New videos show some of the details of this interesting project

by Rosario Grasso published , at 16: 31 in the Technology channel

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Sony spoke again about VISION-S , the concept of “intelligent” electric car initially presented at the last CES. The new presentation, inevitably digital, focuses on a series of videos, which provide information on car design and engineering, include comments from Sony’s partners and reveal that the Vehicle testing on public roads started near the engineering center in Graz, Austria.

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There hasn’t been much talk about VISION-S in the last year, so Sony wanted to catch up with some high-impact videos. Vehicle equips 40 sensors for the management of autonomous driving technologies and great attention is paid to the solutions of infotainment . Sony claims that with this project it wants to benefit from its software experience, which culminate in a large panoramic display covering the entire dashboard. At a certain point in the video you can see a controller PlayStation connected to the screen, highlighting how it is possible to ‘large display for playing Little Big Planet .

Sony partners talked about ‘ importance of communications and the cloud for modern vehicles . Sony’s electric concept human-machine interface includes facial, voice and gesture recognition . The video also shows how the technologies built into Sony cameras can handle advanced thermal imaging solutions. English subtitles are available .

For the moment Sony is not unbalanced on the timing of development and the start of production of the vehicle. However, one of the videos shows the VISION-S on the road, with the body camouflaged. Among other things, note that the drone AirPeak was used for the making of this video.

As revealed last year, Sony VISION-S has a dual motor from 200 kW with the possibility of accelerating from 0 to 100 Km / h in just 4.8 seconds at a maximum speed of 238 Km / h . The vehicle is then equipped with CMOS image sensors and ToF sensors , to detect and recognize objects and people inside and outside the vehicle itself and offer highly advanced driving support. The ?? 360 Sony’s Reality Audio ?? guarantees a deep and immersive audio experience, through the speakers built into each parking space, so as to envelop passengers in sound .

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