[Industry News] CES 2023 Highlights - Especially VUZIX won the CES Innovation Award for the 18th consecutive year!

The International Consumer Electronics Show 2023 (CES 2023) is in full swing from January 5-8, 2023 in Las Vegas, USA.

VUZIX

Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a provider of smart glasses and AR technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets. The company is showcasing its latest lightweight AR eyewear solution during CES2023: Vuzix Ultralite for language translation, subtitling, journalism, training and education.

Supporting both Android and iOS devices, the Vuzix Ultralite pairs with a smartwatch or smartphone via Bluetooth and then uses a light waveguide display to project content from the mobile device directly into the wearer's field of vision.

Vuzix says the smart glasses based on the Vuzix Ultralite design can access notifications, directions, fitness tracking and more. The days of constantly pulling your smartphone out of your pocket and interrupting conversations to check messages may soon be over.

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The Vuzix Ultralite aims to be comfortable and weighs only 38 grams, an important consideration for a wearable device. The display screen occupies a 30-degree field of view, and messages can be repositioned in this area so they are easy to read without distraction.

Notably, the product also received the Ultralite CES Innovation Award from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

It is understood that Vuzix Ultralite-based smart glasses will be available as early as the second quarter of 2023.

In recent years, the concept of meta-universe continues to be hot, and is regarded as a new blue ocean in the digital era. As the key to enter the meta-universe, AR smart glasses are expected to become the next generation of hot smart consumer terminals.

SONY

Kenichiro Yoshida, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of SONY Group, said that working with kando creators is critical to the realization of SONY's corporate mission to “touch the world with the power of creativity and technology. He also emphasized that the essence of entertainment is ”live“ sharing of time and space, and that SONY's creative and interactive technologies will support the delivery of live experiences in the virtual world and connect it to the real world in exciting ways.

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SAMSUNG

Samsung announced at Consumer Electronics Show 2023 the launch of its new SmartThings Station, a small home hub with a 15W wireless charging pad that is compatible with SmartThings devices to help users easily connect to their smart home devices. With SmartThings Station, users can set up frequently used functions, such as controlling lights on and off.

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Users can use the SmartThings app to create up to three frequently used shortcuts for the Hub, which can be activated with the Smart Button and can be operated with a short press, long press or double tap. Additionally, users can start directly from the SmartThings app.

In CES 2023, Samsung brought a large number of products, in terms of TV, Samsung in the field of Neo QLED, Micro LED, QD-OLED and other TVs have brought quite worthy of a look at the product, especially the new upgraded QD-OLED TVs, due to the cost of the decline in the pricing of this year's QD-OLED may not be as “High and mighty”.

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Samsung's new The Premiere has 8K resolution, which Samsung says is the first 8K projector that can display images up to 150 inches wide diagonally. The projector has built-in Dolby Surround Sound and Samsung has equipped it with the same Tizen OS operating system with all the smart features including AirPlay, Alexa, Bixby, Google Assistant and more.

LG

LG Electronics (LG) is showcasing exciting new selectable colors for its MoodUP™-equipped refrigerators at CES 2023. To better personalize the user experience, LG has partnered with the world-renowned Pantone Color Institute (Pantone) to introduce the new Viva Magenta color. Viva Magenta, Pantone's color of the year for 2023, is a bold and fearless magenta that adds excitement and drama to home interiors and brings life to the environment.

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The refrigerator with MoodUP™ was unveiled at IFA 2022 in Berlin in September last year and comes in a wide range of rich, dynamic colors to choose from. With the easy color change feature, users can bring their kitchens to life when they want to make a change. With the arrival of Viva Magenta, the upper door panel of the refrigerator now offers a total of 23 chic color options. With more than 190,000 possible color combinations to choose from, users are free to mix and match until they select the color of their choice.

CANON

Canon is showcasing a range of software services and content during CES2023, including its own VR video system and mixed reality (MR) MREAL X1 head-mounted display system, Knock at the Cabin, a volumetric capture-based film, and FreeViewpoint, a real-time 3D video solution.

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Another well-known home appliance company, HisenseHisence, brought its 2023 new product matrix, which not only included fully upgraded models of the U6, U7, and U8 series, but also featured a variety of laser TV products.

In the press conference, Hisence brought the new ULED X series, which all adopt Mini LED technology. This time, Hisence has made significant enhancements to the U6, U7, and U8 series, with a greater number of backlight zones, and also equipped the Hi-View engine to enhance the picture quality, so that the display effect can be further improved. Among them, the peak brightness of U8 series can even reach 1500nit, which also realizes a new breakthrough.

As the flagship model of Hisence, the U8 series has once again received subversive enhancement this year. Compared with last year, the number of backlight zones of the new U8 series has exceeded a staggering 1,000, which is directly doubled compared to last year's U8 series, and the finer backlight zones will also greatly enhance the details, light and shadow performances of the screen. At the same time, the ultra-high number of backlight zones also allows the Hisence U8 series to deliver a peak brightness of up to 1500nits, which makes the U8 perform even better when playing back images with higher peak brightness in an instant. The U8 also supports gaming features such as 144Hz refresh rate, Game Mode Pro, ALLM, FreeSync Premium Pro, and also features Wi-Fi 6E for an even better gaming experience. In addition, in terms of sound, the U8 has a 2.1.2 multi-channel speaker system with two additional up-firing speakers in addition to the low-frequency to create a more three-dimensional sound field. In addition, the U8 also supports Dolby Surround Sound and other high-specification content playback.

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Skyworth Skyworth TV brought a number of its heavy star products to CES2023, including MiniLED Outdoor TV S1, Transformer OLED TV W82, Mini LED TV Q52, QLED TV G3B, as well as the smart TV system Coolita OS.

MiniLED, Enhance Outdoor Large Display Experience

In recent years, MiniLED and OLED have caused the industry and various enterprises to follow up since their introduction. According to relevant data, the sales volume of MiniLED TVs in 2022 will increase significantly compared with that in 2021. The features of high peak brightness and high picture contrast are gradually winning the recognition of consumers and becoming a major driving force for the upgrading of TV product experience.

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After releasing the Q72, the industry's first Skyworth SmartMiniLED TV built on COG glass-based technology in 2021, Skyworth TV officially showcased at this year's CES theThe world's first outdoor TV with Google's system S1This is one of the most eye-catching products at the Skyworth booth.

INTEL

Intel rolled out the 13th generation Raptor Lake family across its product lineup during CES 2023, announcing a number of new products, specifically the 13th generation Core desktop processors with 65W TDP, the 13th generation Core HX-Series and the 13th generation Core H/P/U-Series for mobile platforms, the N-Series entry-level processors with E-Core only, and Intel's innovations in wireless connectivity technologies such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, as well as an introduction to the next-generation Evo certification standard.

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Mobile platforms were also highlighted at CES 2023, with the announcement of the 55W HX series for enthusiast gaming, the 45W H series for hardcore thin and light notebooks, the 28W P series for high-performance thin and light notebooks, and the 15W U series for modern thin and light notebooks.

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NVIDIA

NVIDIA has officially announced the RTX 40 series of laptop graphics cards, and this time the RTX 4090 will also be available for the first time for laptops! The new GPU lineup for the latest laptops includes GeForce RTX 4050, 4060, 4070, 4080 and 4090 laptop GPUs.

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ASUS

ASUS has announced the ASUS Intrepid Pro 16 laptop at CES 2023, which comes with a naked-eye 3D-enabled OLED screen.

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The screen size is 16 inches, OLED display screen with 3200 x 2000 resolution, supports high screen refresh rate of 120Hz, and features a glass panel and lenticular lens at the top of the screen. Together with eye tracking technology, the display can render real-time images for each of the user's eyes, thus achieving the effect of naked eye 3D.

At CES 2023, Qualcomm officially announced Snapdragon Satellite, the world's first solution that enables two-way communication on smartphones. In addition to emergency communication similar to the iPhone 14, Snapdragon Satellite also enables the sending and receiving of messages.

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This time, Qualcomm has chosen to work with Iridium, which has deployed an array of 66 satellites in low orbit.

From the information, the first satellite of Jixing was orbited in 1997, put into service in 1998, and upgraded in 2019, claiming that it currently has a million active users per day.

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According to Qualcomm, the e-mail communication feature will be available on the next generation of flagship handsets equipped with the Dragon 8 Gen2, with the first to go live in some regions in the second half of the year. According to Qualcomm's field tests, the satellite can send a basic SMS message in less than three seconds. In addition, Garmin will also utilize email technology to enable emergency communications.

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It is reported that on the hardware side, the mailbox satellite communication relies on the mailbox 5G baseband-RF radio frequency parts, with the help of the all-weather L band of the star. Qualcomm envisions that the email satellite communication function will be extended to a wider range of devices beyond mobile phones, such as laptops, tablets, automobiles, and IoT in the future.

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This article is excerpted from >> CES2023

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