MINIEV GAMEBOY, which will be listed this weekend, will surely evoke the memories of the vast majority of post-80s or post-90s. As a handheld game console launched by Nintendo in the 80s of the last century, GAMEBOY carries a lot of childhood happiness after the 80s or 90s. However, Wuling Hongguang is definitely not the first car company in the field of cross-border games, you know, many cars have begun to transform into game halls.
Earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made it clear in response to a gaming reporter on Twitter that Tesla was working to port its library of games on Steam to its own models. Steam is currently one of the largest gaming platforms in the world, and once Elon Musk's plans come to fruition, Tesla's car will become a mobile gaming hall.
Elon Musk replied that Tesla is working to port the game library on Steam to its own model.
Last year, GAC Aeon launched a game set for AION S Plus called "Cross-Dimensional Dream Esports Cabin". The 199 yuan game set includes not only a gamepad, but also includes installation packages for thousands of games. In March this year, Xiaopeng Automobile also transplanted the mobile game "Tom Cat Parkour" to a number of models including P5, G3i, G3 and G3. More and more new energy vehicles are becoming mobile game halls.
The mobile game of "Tom Cat Parkour" appeared in the car engine system of many models of Xiaopeng.
Hardware is in place, and it is a trend for cars to become game halls
Whether the earliest car with its own game should be counted as the Russian-made light truck born ten years ago - GAZelle Next, we do not know, but what is certain is that the car game at that time must not be a positive and bright entertainment behavior, after all, if you want to enjoy Tetris in a pitifully small size dashboard LCD display, you need to activate it through the classic "up and down, left and right LEFT and right BA" input similar to street fighter games. Imagine a Russian drinking vodka, driving a hard-hitting Mao guo light card, and playing tetris with a dashboard on the icy outskirts of Russia.
The designers of GAZelle Next don't know for what purpose the game was secretly implanted with Tetris in the dashboard control screen.
Russians must not have imagined that ten years later, the screen of the car is no longer "square inches". If the 48-inch screen on the Byton M-Byte a few years ago was still amazing, the 56-inch Hyperscreen on today's Mercedes-Benz S-Class is simply against the sky, and its size even exceeds the living room TV of many families. Although the central control screen of the current mainstream models is still stuck below 20 inches, if such a large screen is only used to obtain navigation information, is it not a tyrannical object? Therefore, with the blessing of the mobile Internet, the addition of various online video apps has gradually made the car a mobile audio and video room.
For this kind of vertical central control screen, it is not very suitable for porting the side-scrolling game on Steam, but the mobile game has become the best choice.
Let the car feel more than the living room of the big screen. If you want to get an excellent listening experience, a good sound system naturally needless to say, which is also an important configuration for car companies in the current arms race. In addition, a confined space is also a necessary condition. Cars with their own sound insulation are just satisfied, and the relatively small and closed structure also makes the body easy to resonate, and the acoustic effect is more three-dimensional. The visual and auditory hardware is no different from the living room at home, and it is not difficult to understand why car companies have begun to play the idea of a game hall.
Musk has previously said that "entertainment will become crucial when cars are driving themselves." ”
If you want to create a mobile game hall, the above two conditions alone are not enough. At present, the game of hundreds of G in size puts forward higher requirements for the computing power of the car machine. However, this does not seem like a problem for a car-machine system that can process multiple video signals simultaneously to achieve high-level driver assistance.
When the chips of consumer electronics appear in new energy vehicles, a new category in the field of chips may be born - vehicle-grade consumer electronics chips.
From the perspective of computing power alone, Tesla has been on par with the current mainstream game consoles.
AMD's CEO has made it clear that he is working with Tesla to provide Tesla with AMD Ryzen processors and RDNA2 graphics processors, which are currently mainstream desktop-level CPUs and GPUs, respectively. With the blessing of more advanced chips, Tesla's in-car entertainment system will have 10 trillion floating-point (Teraflop) computing power per second, which is almost the same as the current mainstream SONY PlayStation 5.
According to Internet rumors, Tesla CEO Elon Musk's favorite thing to do when he was in school was to play games in his bedroom, and even his girlfriend at the time often complained that he played games for hours. Most gamers have had similar experiences, but if you can turn a car into a game hall, I believe this kind of problem will be solved.
the hearts of SpaceX and Tesla, and not forgetting Elon Musk. Although the picture is a spoof of netizens, it also reflects his state of life.
With the development of new energy vehicles, the process of transforming cars into game halls will become faster and faster. Large-capacity batteries have become the basis for the long-term and high-load operation of the car machine, and all functional electrical appliances in the static state can be pre-rotated normally, without the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, which is difficult to achieve in the era of fuel vehicles. For now, whether it is when parking and waiting for people, or when charging in the parking lot, the addition of games can more or less enrich the life of the car. In the future, as autonomous driving moves to a higher level, playing games may become an option during commuting.
Both the PlayStation and Xbox gamepads will find support on Tesla, but that's not enough...
Playing games during commuting? At least not for now
In the early years of the game," before the game started, a warning similar to safe driving would pop up on the screen before the game started, and the game features would be used only by passengers while the vehicle was in motion, after which a prompt box would pop up asking if the player was a passenger. Nevertheless, the driver can also launch the game with simple operation.
The price of this game set by GAC Aean is definitely a conscience price.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Tesla Autopilot has been in an activated state with multiple traffic accidents, and Tesla's in-car video games increase the risk of collisions. As a result, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asked Tesla to make corrections, which is why Tesla can only start the game when parked today.
Driving assistance can indeed free our hands to a certain extent, but what can be done after the hands are freed, and how to ensure safety, is what we are worth thinking about.
In addition, if the vehicle is facing the electronic screen for a long time during the driving process, the vestibular system in the inner ear of the human body's balance organ will transmit signals to the brain, and these signals will conflict with the signals transmitted by the sensory system to the brain, resulting in a feeling of motion sickness or motion sickness. Therefore, playing games on the road is not only unsafe, the experience will not be too good.
Tesla will soon introduce its own wirelessly connected gamepad, and its gaming experience will be one level higher than the PS or Xbox's gamepad.
For the topic of cars turning into game halls, although many consumers, especially gamers, have welcomed this development, there are still many voices of opposition, and many of these objections are due to safety considerations, just as the physical buttons gradually began to be replaced by virtual buttons in the central control menu. Well, the question is, what is your attitude towards this issue, welcome to discuss with us in the comments section.
Conclusion: With the advancement of science and technology, how to make their own smart cars stand out with higher technology content in the competition is a topic that every manufacturer is studying. However, in the face of the rapid development of science and technology, car companies are too much to highlight the strength of science and technology in the way of appearing too "showmanship", and even deviate from the attributes and positioning of such a means of transport at the beginning of the birth of the car, the excessive use of science and technology to bring people a new feeling at the same time will also bring more uncertainties, and even negative effects, for the sense of science and technology "arms race" should be carried out endlessly, is the problem that all practitioners should think about.