CES 2023: From a new player in electric cars to the next generation of VR - what to expect from the world's biggest tech event - Sky News

Never caput Adele's residency, it's the gadgets of the aboriginal that volition beryllium taking Las Vegas by tempest this week.

Two miles down the roadworthy from wherever the British star is entrenched successful a four-month tally of performances astatine the Caesars Palace Hotel, thousands of enthusiasts volition spell hands connected with the latest successful tech.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) astatine the Las Vegas Convention Center volition beryllium astatine afloat capableness for the archetypal clip since earlier the pandemic erstwhile it kicks disconnected connected Thursday, raising the anticipation for what the likes of Samsung, Amazon and Sony mightiness amusement off.

Here's a usher to what you tin expect from the world's biggest user exertion event.

When is it?

The CES amusement level officially opens connected Thursday and runs until Sunday, but plentifulness of announcements volition travel via quality conferences hosted by large attendees connected Wednesday.

The likes of LG, Sony, and Samsung volition beryllium livestreaming their events connected their YouTube channels.

Who's going to beryllium there?

Most of the biggest names successful tech volition beryllium represented, including Amazon, LG, Microsoft, and Samsung.

However, it's worthy noting that Apple is ne'er astatine CES, arsenic it prefers to marque announcements astatine its ain events.

That's besides existent of Samsung and Google erstwhile it comes to their yearly smartphone updates, truthful expect the erstwhile to prioritise TVs and appliances here, portion the latter's beingness volition apt beryllium focused connected the astute home.

It does mean there's plentifulness of country for smaller firms and start-ups to marque their people among the astir 3,000 companies attending, with a absorption this twelvemonth connected sustainability and wellness gadgets.

CES is besides ever stacked with machine manufacturers similar Intel, Nvidia, and AMD, which volition beryllium worthy watching fixed ongoing struggles with spot supplies, and carmakers similar BMW and Mercedes.

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Concept car inspired by Avatar
Self-sinking play balls and a flying taxi
Anti-snore pillows and tiny information systems

What kinds of products should we expect?

Thousands of products volition beryllium connected amusement astatine the normal centre, and acquainted standbys similar TVs, monitors, drones, and room appliances volition instrumentality up plentifulness of level space.

Asus is teasing a laptop with a 3D show - and Samsung has already unveiled a camera-equipped oven that tin recognise nutrient and adjacent livestream the presumption from wrong to societal media (take that, MasterChef).

Beyond those, present are a fewer cardinal areas to support an oculus on:

Electric cars

Sony is champion known for cameras, TVs, and its PlayStation division, but its astir intriguing announcement astatine CES is related to its archetypal task into electrical cars.

The Japanese tech elephantine entered into a concern with compatriot carmaker Honda past year, and has each but confirmed that the fruits of that woody - astir surely a self-driving conveyance - volition beryllium shown disconnected this week.

Stellantis, which owns Peugeot, Vauxhall and Fiat, volition person a large beingness astatine the show, and BMW volition besides beryllium hosting a keynote.

Health and fitness

There's nary amended clip than the commencement of a caller twelvemonth to jangle enticing caller fittingness products successful beforehand of people, and exhibitors are apt to bring plentifulness of wellness gizmos to the show.

Among them are the Evie ringing - a wearable aimed astatine women which tin show bosom and respiratory rate, and connection play and ovulation tracking.

Organisers accidental the amusement volition besides beryllium highlighting "the value of distant connectivity for accessible wellness care", which volition apt resonate present successful the UK amid unprecedented unit connected the NHS.

Smart home

A large shake-up successful the astute location marketplace precocious successful 2022 whitethorn person gone nether your radar, but opened the doorway to a imaginable deluge of caller appliances.

Matter launched successful November - it's a caller astute location modular which fundamentally allows each the antithetic ecosystems (Amazon's Alexa, Google's Home, etc) to speech to 1 another, theoretically meaning that you tin power each astute instrumentality successful your location via your chosen platform.

Companies ample and tiny are expected to instrumentality vantage and amusement disconnected their wares astatine CES, from location information to cooking appliances, with Samsung promising a "new and expanded experience" for its SmartThings range.

Virtual reality

While CES is not traditionally focused connected gaming, it would beryllium remiss of Sony not to dedicate immoderate of its keynote to PlayStation VR2, which launches conscionable a period from now.

Other players successful the abstraction could besides look to drawback immoderate attention, with HTC expected to denote a rival to Meta's Quest 2, which was one of the astir sought-after gadgets during the Christmas buying season.

Don't stake connected Meta itself having immoderate announcements, but it volition beryllium hoping CES encourages punters to instrumentality a 2nd look astatine its premium Quest Pro headset, which launched to mixed reviews astatine an eye-watering £1,499 successful October.