It is one of the events technology the most anticipated of the year. The Consumer Electronic Show (ces), which takes place in Las Vegas (Nevada), has opened its doors to the media and professionals around the world this Tuesday, January 3, before welcoming the general public from Thursday to Sunday.
Smartphones, cars, objects in the house : the sector of consumer electronics will be offered the vision of an environment that is ever more connected and intelligent, but with a growing pressure to make it happen. In total : more than 3,800 exhibitors and at least 165,000 visitors are expected.
The augmented reality, the star of the show
” The things that I expect to see really everywhere, it is the augmented reality and virtual, the house and the smart cars “, told AFP Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Creative Strategies. “If some of these hopes and dreams, such as the connected home and virtual reality or augmented, do not begin to show results, it really is symptomatic of a problem which the sector is going to be confronted,” she says, however.
Find a relay of growth becomes urgent as the smartphone market shows signs of saturation and that other products seem to disappoint the hopes placed in them, such as tablets boom which has subsided, or watches connected, which are struggling to find an audience.
Or if Stephen Baker, an analyst firm NPD Group, predicts ” a lot of things related to virtual and augmented reality, drones and smart homes “, he acknowledges that “most will be improvements from what we saw last year, “nothing really” revolutionary “.
” I don’t think we have yet reached the tipping point on any of these products, but we are rather ready for things like the smart home “, while the virtual and augmented reality is likely to become a more mainstream from this year, he said.
Many exhibitors at THESE should focus on the potential of virtual and augmented reality in industry, commerce or even medicine, even if she could win, especially in a first time, lovers of video games, according to Jack Gold, an expert in the technology sector : “The question is not whether it has the potential to change things “, but to make it sufficiently accessible “so that people can really use,” he explains. The technological advances in the artificial intelligence and robotics should also hold an important place in the living room.
The heavyweights of the electronics such as Samsung, Sony, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Huawei will compete as each year the size and resolution of their tvs, the design of their smartphones or the intelligence of their devices for the home. LG should, inter alia, to show a speaker that “levitates” above its material thanks to the electro-magnets, and Samsung a vacuum cleaner that is compatible with the hub to voice command for the house Echo from Amazon.
The automotive industry is very much expected
THESE became at the same time an important date for the automotive industry, which does not reserve to be its new models with its own lounge segment held the following week in Detroit.
Fiat Chrysler has scheduled a press conference in Las Vegas instead of Detroit. The new kid on the Faraday in the Future, which arises due to rival Tesla on the niche market of electric vehicles, will unveil for its part Tuesday night in his first production car.
The boss of the Renault-Nissan alliance, Carlos Ghosn, will also discuss this year at ces, and a “major technological breakthrough” for a future without greenhouse gas emissions, and without deaths on the roads, according to the organizers of the exhibition.
In general, a particular emphasis will be placed on futuristic vehicles, especially those without a driver : the part of the exhibition devoted to the technologies of autonomous control, as some manufacturers promise in series for 2021, has increased 75% since its creation in 2014, according to the CTA.
” The race is on to bring autonomous vehicles, electrical and connected to consumers. The THESE will be an important step in the next few years to see who in the area can realize such a future, ” says J. P. Gownder, an analyst with Forrester.
Source AFP
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