2023 CES tech show showcases wireless TV, delivery robots and in-car VR - FRANCE 24 English

The amusement is getting backmost to mean aft going wholly virtual successful 2021 and seeing a important driblet successful 2022 attendance due to the fact that of the pandemic. 

On Wednesday, large names similar LG and Samsung and smaller startups showcased their latest products for the media successful Las Vegas. The amusement officially opens Thursday.

Here are immoderate highlights:

No messy wires

LG Electronics unveiled a 97-inch OLED TV with what it calls a Zero Connect Box that streams contented wirelessly. The box, which inactive needs to beryllium plugged in, conscionable needs to beryllium wrong 30 feet (nine meters) of the display.

But wherefore would anyone privation a wireless 4K television?

David M. Park, elder selling manager astatine the South Korean tech company, says it means owners tin spot a TV successful the halfway of the country without each the messy wires, oregon possibly equine it supra a fireplace oregon possibly connected a hard-to-drill factual wall.

LG says the 97-inch LG Signature OLED M (model M3) volition beryllium disposable successful the 2nd fractional of 2023. Pricing has not yet been announced.

Robot deliveries

Picture yourself weaving done crowds astatine the airdrome connected a engaged vacation weekend, ignoring the rumble successful your tummy arsenic you velocity past restaurants to marque it to your gross connected time.

Brooklyn-based Ottonomy.io is looking to easiness that all-too-familiar question anxiousness with its afloat autonomous transportation robots.

If you’re traveling done airports successful Cincinnati, Pittsburgh oregon Rome, for example, you mightiness transverse paths with 1 of these robots arsenic they bring nutrient straight to travelers astatine their gates.

Ottonomy unveiled its newest robot, the Yeti, connected Wednesday astatine CES. It showed disconnected its caller self-dispensing feature, which eliminates the request for a quality to beryllium contiguous to cod deliveries.

The institution besides provides outdoor curbside transportation services up to 4 miles (6.4 kilometers).

Ottonomy co-founder and CEO Ritukar Vijay said the terms tag connected its services varies depending connected the fig of robots a institution wants to deploy and however galore restaurants oregon retailers are included successful the transportation footprint.

Audio glasses from Paula Abdul

Singer and dancer Paula Abdul came to CES to motorboat Idol Eyes, a enactment of audio sunglasses.

“I’ve wanted to get into the tech satellite for the longest time,” Abdul told The Associated Press, “but I wanted to bash it successful a mode that was authentic to who I am.”

Starting astatine $199, the sunglasses diagnostic a five-hour artillery beingness and play audio from the arms of the frames via Bluetooth connectivity. You tin perceive to euphony oregon reply calls.

The Grammy- and Emmy-award winning artist’s archetypal postulation of eyewear is disposable successful 7 colors, with polarized and bluish airy filter lenses.

“I’m conscionable marrying fashion, question and technology,” Abdul said. “That’s wherever my bosom is.”.

VR for your car

Holoride, based successful Munich, Germany, wants to marque car rides much amusive and little dizzy. The company's VR headset allows passengers to play video games, ticker Netflix oregon scroll done Instagram portion they ride. 

If the car is moving, you determination successful the virtual world, helping to forestall car sickness, according to co-founder Daniel Profendiner. Rather than seeing the road, you mightiness beryllium flying and warring robots oregon swimming nether the sea. 

“The car manufacture is super-focused connected the operator but with much autonomous driving connected the horizon, the rider gets much into the absorption arsenic well,” helium said.

Previously, holoride was lone disposable for Audis with an in-system retrofit truthful the headset could admit erstwhile the car was moving. On Wednesday astatine CES, the institution announced a caller merchandise that tin beryllium utilized successful immoderate car.

The retrofit pack, which includes the VR headset, holoride retrofit, a information strap and a one-year subscription to holoride, is $799.

Roku gets its ain TVs

Roku is expanding its line-up of video streaming devices to see internet-connected TVs bearing its marque for the archetypal time.

It's Roku’s latest effort to cement its presumption arsenic a video streaming hub during the ongoing displacement from TV provided done net connections alternatively of cablegram and outer systems.

When the sets rotation retired aboriginal this spring, it volition people the archetypal clip that Roku has made its ain TVs. The San Jose, California, institution volition proceed to squad up with a assortment of different manufacturers to see its steaming bundle successful internet-connected TVs — an attack that Roku began successful 2014.

The determination to marque its ain TVs portion continuing to marque its bundle disposable to competing manufacturers is akin to what Google has been doing with its Pixel smartphones since 2016. Google has continued to supply its Android operating strategy to Samsung and different smartphone manufacturers portion utilizing its Pixel line-up arsenic a mode to show however the bundle works champion and to elevate consciousness of its marque successful the mobile market.

Roku’s 11 tv models, with show screens ranging from 24 inches to 75 inches, are expected to merchantability for astir $120 to $1,000 erstwhile they get successful stores. 

Roku got an aboriginal borderline successful the now-booming manufacture astir 15 years agone erstwhile it released its archetypal streaming container aft moving connected the instrumentality arsenic a concealed task wrong Netflix, which was successful the aboriginal stages of gathering what is present the world’s largest video streaming service.

As tech giants specified arsenic Amazon and Apple released their ain streaming devices, Roku began to grow into internet-connected TVs made by different companies, dependable bars and past twelvemonth adjacent got into archetypal programming with a movie astir satirical opus shaper Weird Al Yankovic.

(AP)