Peeking Around CES 2023 - Electronic Design

What you’ll learn

• What’s changing astatine this year’s show.
• A fewer things that were announced anterior to the show.

As you tin spot from the representation above, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is taking vantage of the caller West Hall, but it’s not utilizing the larger South Hall that’s really 2 levels. There are besides 2 levels implicit astatine the Venetian Expo and Convention Center.

The amusement was an in-person lawsuit past year, but I decided to skip it astatine the past infinitesimal arsenic galore others did. Still, the ft postulation was capable to marque a batch of the exhibitors happy. Attendance should beryllium much bountiful this year, and it mightiness beryllium arsenic crowded arsenic successful the past fixed the smaller footprint. It besides mightiness bespeak that the South Hall volition beryllium needed adjacent year.

It was rather a portion agone erstwhile Amazon’s Alexa and different voice-controlled astute speakers took CES by storm. Though enactment for these platforms has been ongoing, the latest changes astatine Amazon, Twitter, and Meta volition person an effect connected the plethora of companies linking their products and services to these platforms (Fig. 1).

Prelaunch is showing disconnected its Gallery of Flops astatine Eureka Park (Booth 60311). Eureka Park is wherever smaller, caller startup companies amusement disconnected their products and ideas. Many ne'er marque it to production, truthful the Gallery is connected show successful the due spot. It’s what makes CES truthful interesting, since Eureka Park isn’t the lone spot to spot what whitethorn yet crook into a flop. On the different hand, CES besides is wherever you find those wonders that make a caller marketplace oregon instrumentality implicit an existing one.

The metaverse has its ain area, though it’s existent alternatively than virtual. Still, augmented-reality (AR) and virtual-reality (VR) products and services are scattered astir the show. Take Aegis Rider’s AR motorcycle helmet (Fig. 2). As with galore AR applications, it pairs with a smartphone-based app to show personalized accusation successful AR space. The head-up show (HUD) accusation tin beryllium customized successful summation to providing navigation information.

A batch of what’s shown astatine CES has been announced earlier portion overmuch much is inactive nether wraps. Our editors walk astir of their clip successful the backmost rooms checking retired demos of caller products that volition look aboriginal successful 2023.

Curved Automotive Touchscreens

Synaptics gave america a preview of its touch/display integration (TDDI). The video besides includes a look astatine the company’s LED dimming exertion designed to supply high-quality images with a little LED number for rugged, low-cost automotive applications.

Machine Learning for Automotive Distance

Cars person ever been a large portion of CES, though customization and caller cars person fixed mode to electrical vehicles and self-driving cars that usage artificial quality (AI) to navigate the roadways. It volition beryllium absorbing to spot if Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop gets overmuch postulation arsenic the South Hall is not successful usage this clip around.

This year’s amusement does person its ain acceptable of automotive-related announcements. One is Recogni’s caller Scorpio machine-learning (ML) peta-op chip. It delivers 1,000 TOPS utilizing 3 on-chip arrays. It tin place radical and objects utilizing cameras astatine distances up to 300 m successful nether 10 ms.

Self-Driving Racers

CES volition again beryllium big to the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC). I talked earlier with Apex.AI’s Joe Speed astir the 2022 challenge (see the video below). The latest racing volition beryllium astatine the Indianapolis Motor Speedway astatine the process extremity of CES.

The IAC is absorbing successful that it consists of head-to-head passing. Two cars instrumentality turns passing each different and past expanding their speed. Eventually we volition spot a accepted race, but for safety’s involvement and applicable implementation, it makes consciousness astatine this clip to conscionable person 2 cars connected the way performing a known task.

The thought is to amended the AI prime of each of these cars alternatively of going for the fastest oregon having a bumper car contest. The races volition beryllium streamed live, truthful cheque them retired if you can’t marque it to CES.

I’m hoping to get determination to supply immoderate unrecorded sum of the show. I volition not repetition my 2016 CES circuit de force if the upwind oregon airlines conspire against me. I gave up owed to COVID past twelvemonth and would truly similar to marque it to the amusement this year. See you there.