Gayathri Rajan, VP of Product Management at Google, also spoke at LG’s press conference about the company’s partnership with LG.
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In total, there are 3,600 companies there to exhibit, including about 500 startups, CES says.
It remained to be seen whether new contenders would step up to challenge “the big three” in VR, but CES goers would likely see uses of the technology extended beyond gaming, according to Blau.
LG, one of a few global players that have been pushing for the OLED TV for the past several years, will show off its competitive edge in OLED TV technology.
The Internet of Things, a current buzzword in the tech scene, is expected to be in the spotlight at the tech exhibition this year. Electronics makers eager to keep the party going have been desperate to find new products that will replace them and catch fire with consumers. Other automakers including Peugeot Citroen, Honda, Mazda and Subaru are also considering adopting the software, Ford said in a press release.
Another notable device that may turn heads during the CES is the Roboking Turbo Plus, in its CordZero vacuum cleaner product lineup, equipped with virtual reality technology. That’s assuming you have connected light bulbs that are themselves connected to the Echo, which is then connected to your auto. Major technology companies can purposefully make it tougher to interact with other companies’ gadgets for business reasons.
At Ford’s press conference early Tuesday morning, for instance, the company announced that its cars will be able to talk to the Amazon Echo connected appliance.
– That’s entertainment: Those looking to CES to act as a crystal ball should look carefully at some of the entertainment-related developments expected at the show as well. But that’s not the only interesting piece of automotive tech at CES 2016, as NVIDIA built on its CES 2015 show to launch the Drive PX2 deep-learning computer at this year’s event.
The way that we access entertainment – movies, music, games and more – is changing, and the lines between tech companies and entertainment companies are getting blurrier. HTC has used CES to announce a new version of the Vive headset – Vive Pre – complete with a front-facing camera.
With a strong manufacturing power waiting for orders, Chinese companies are turning the technology show into a trade event.
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“With the Internet of Things, we really have to think in terms of scale”, says Rapid7 senior security consultant Mark Stanislav.
