United States local time January 9, located in Nevada desert edge, the rainfall in the United States last-first Las Vegas, 2018CES on the first day of the rare underground rains.
However, the torrential rains did not quench the enthusiasm of exhibitors from the Planet Holloween Hotel to the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) about 4 km, the original 10-minute drive, the reporter took the car used nearly 1 Hours before arriving at the destination - the road leading to the exhibition, filled with large and small vehicles.
People are going to CES Gold Rush. So, what is this year's CES?
Intelligence is everywhere
On the eve of CES, Intel took a major science show as the prelude to the show.
Just about an hour of activity, a rock from live training of virtual data band play, 100 Intel Shotting Star mini drone in the stage shuttle lighting show, Intel CEO Section odd public in VR helmet Into the virtual world, unmanned car Volocopter debut ...
In fact, this topic of CES booth, but also inseparable from the topic of intelligence related to the 'we can see a clear trend is that artificial intelligence has basically completely infiltrated consumer electronics Various product lines and businesses. "On the very day of CES, Jing Kun, general manager of Baidu's Department of General Affairs, said in an interview with 21st Century Business Herald." Artificial Intelligence has become a global wave. "
LVCC North Hall has basically evolved into a car exhibition hall, various manufacturers argue that the smart cars are presented here, with the related colored components, supply chain manufacturers are also exhibited. South Pavilion, AR, VR, speakers, TV , Robots and other products dizzying.Among Science and Technology show Mix prototype, the viewing angle up to 96 degrees and can AR / VR technology in the free switch; HTC announced to achieve monocular 3K level Vive Pro equipment; Oculus Launched VR helmet called Oculus GO, with a panoramic near-field headphone.
In front of DuerOS booth, a participant with the interest rap Raven Ra. According to staff, the rectangular box of 8 colored cuboid smart speakers, the top of the 'cover' is removable 'mobile control Screen the brain. "On the other side of the Horizon Booth, a participant sits in the open-air driver's seat with a car on the city's traffic lane displayed on the screen in front of the seat. The driver monitoring system begins to alert when the driver's eyes are pushed aside.
'This system uses a monocular infrared camera to determine the state of fatigue and attention based on driver's face condition and give warnings.' On January 10, 2018, a Horizon staffer told 21st Century Economic Reporter.
Central Hall, including Samsung, LG, Hisense, Qualcomm, Intel and other large manufacturers are set to exhibit here. LG's smart voice assistant CLOi with big blue eyes to the people in front of the 'sell Meng'. According to LG staff introduction , The assistant can control a variety of home appliances and has deep learning ability.Samsung's Bixby voice assistant is also carried in its own color home appliances, together with the latest release of Smartthing APP and the cloud together to give all things intelligent.
Hard and soft combination of the trend
Continued in-depth intelligence, it brings the trend of integration of hardware and software.
According to past experience, Google usually partners with hardware partners exhibiting, but this year, Google chose a stand-alone exhibition and has a large booth, said Google will be in the booth launch Pixel 2 series phones, VR head, laptop and smart Speakers and more.
At this year's CES ad hoc voice assistant Alexander Booth to further promote their own smart home advantage.According to Strategy Analytics analysis report, as of late last year, Amazon Alexa's market share reached 69%, while Google Assistant's market share 25.3%.
Amazon and Google Assistant have been particularly well-publicized this year, and the trend toward smart hardware has become even more pronounced. "Jing Kun told 21st Century Business Herald.
In fact, the hardware to march not only ends in the Amazon and Google on January 8, Baidu DuerOS and partners jointly released three new products: Fish at home VS1 smart video speakers, Sengled Sheng Di smart speaker and popIn Aladdin smart Projection ceiling lamps.In addition, including raven H smart speakers, TCL smart TVs, CITIC Guoan Guangsheng smart set-top boxes and other hardware DuerOS booth also appeared.
Alibaba's AI Lab announced the launch of the Bluetooth IoT chip with IoTConnect protocol with MediaTek after the release of its smart speaker Lynx, of which IoTConnect is the World Wide Web Open Connectivity Protocol and smart devices will be more easily connected to Lynx Elves.
'Intelligent voice interaction is a relatively mature technology direction in the artificial intelligence field at present, and the reason why software manufacturers start to do hardware actually means to combine technologies with hardware and software to make the technology fall into place.' Xiang Di, deputy general manager of CCID Consulting's artificial intelligence research center, told the 21st Century Economic Reporter.
In addition to the "hard" Internet companies, the traditional hardware vendors are also trying to become "soft." In addition to Samsung's intelligent voice assistant Bixby, LG CLOi launched, including LG, Panasonic and other manufacturers of television products in this exhibition Into the Google Assistant, and another LG home, Hisense TV embraced Amazon Alexanda.
To be explored landing
However, no matter whether it is made of soft or hard-to-soft, in the current situation, there is not a product that is universally accepted by the general public. "Intelligent voice technology is relatively mature, so the user's requirements and expectations of the product Higher. "Sunward 21st Century Economic Reporter bluntly.
In fact, in the CES site test process, multiple manufacturers of smart speakers, smart TVs in the voice interaction were unrecognized or identify errors, etc. In this regard, the relevant manufacturers to 21st Century Business Herald reporter said that this phenomenon The reason for this is that this situation does not occur in the home environment due to over-population of people, poor wifi, and loud noise.
However, they still reflect the user experience problems that may occur in the process of intelligent voice technology landing: not all voice interaction scenarios are in a home environment, and even in a home environment, noise, poor WiFi status may be encountered .
Another problem is that, for the current user's life, intelligent voice interaction is more similar to the product's additional function, not a necessity, therefore, the number of adopters is still a minority, and most users still remain in the "safe area" of experience.
'In fact, the demand side, it should be divided into groups and scenes may be.' Jing Kun 21st Century Economic Reporter explained that 'from our survey, including the elderly, children, the demand for intelligent voice interaction is higher than adults The related products of these people are expected to become the breakthrough point.
Lightning told reporters in the 21st Century Business Herald, the current site Lynx elf scene, including nursing homes, maternal and child rooms, hotels, through the control of different scenes Home equipment to facilitate the different types and different needs of the crowd.
Lu Cheng, general manager of Baidu's smart hardware, emphasized that the overall direction of technology should be seen when making demand judgments. "Now that vendors provide technology to users is gradually convincing users by means of solving things better. Google, Amazon or Apple can not guarantee the full satisfaction of users, but in any case, the trend toward technology is clear.