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I played Horizon Forbidden West inside Sony and Honda's Afeela concept EV at CES 2024

Sony and Honda’s EV inches closer to reality with SHM offering a slightly clearer idea of what it’ll bring to the competitive world of cars. The company says the Afeela EV will be available for pre-order in 2025 before going on sale in the US the following year.

At last year’s CES 2023, it revealed the Afeela Concept EV, which packed in 45 cameras and an expansive “media bar” that spread across the vehicle's dash, showing a mix of car information, navigation, music players and more. SHM also announced during Sony’s CES show that it’s already teamed up with Microsoft to use its Azure OpenAI technology to create a “Mobility Personal Agent” — a conversational in-car virtual assistant for drivers and passengers alike. While we weren’t driving the Aveela EV around Las Vegas, SHM tried to offer the next best thing: a car simulator made in collaboration with Epic Games (and what appears to be that Unreal Engine 5 Matrix demo).

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