With the Consumer Electronics Show just around the corner, let's take a look at the top five tech highlights of this year's show:
Emotional robot
Emotional robot is a kind of robot that can recognize, process and imitate human behavior based on equipment and system. Single-functional robots were the talk of the town last year, but this year, with further advances in deep learning, emotional robots may actually make their way into our homes.
One of the best-known prototypes of emotional robots on the market today is Jibo, known as the family robot. Jibo represents a home robot product that will integrate Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and become a true smart home steward in the future.
Emotional robots open up new possibilities -- providing highly relevant content, but also being able to serve as an access point to the Internet of Things to provide users with basic behavioral data. The key concept of an emotional robot is that it can take the user's emotional reactions into account and thus interact more actively with the user.
With CES just around the corner, here are five things to watch for
At CES, wearables of all kinds got a lot of buzz, but so far they've mostly been passive data gatherers. This year, active gesture-controlled wearables will be a new focus.
In fact, active gesture control wearable devices have already appeared in CES 2015 -- LogBar's Ring is a gesture control device. Ring has already attracted the attention of a large number of people at that time. The simple design of Ring can control the smart home system of the Internet of Things through gestures.
Gesture control is a very interesting way to connect the physical and digital worlds. Devices like the Ring could serve as interfaces to allow consumer electronics companies to create customizable gestures for customers. In the future, users will be able to control everything from a TV to a stereo to a coffee maker directly by gesture without touching any device.
At CES 2016, there will be a lot of gesture control devices.
Here are five things to watch for as CES 2016 kicks off
Gesture-Based Human Machine Interface
Flexible screens remain a science-fiction mystique -- digitally displayed, bendable, rolleable, machined into a variety of different shapes... Flexible screens have always had a strong market appeal.
While we've started to see flexible screens in products like the Samsung Galaxy Round and LG's G Flex, we've seen a number of prototypes using flexible screens over the years.
However, this is not the only application field of flexible screens. If further developed, such flexible screens can even be directly integrated into clothing, so as to reverse the dependence of consumers on mobile devices.
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During a recent earnings call, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said that virtual reality (VR) will revolutionize computing. We've seen a lot of experiential VR explorers at CES in the past, and now we're getting to experience some of this nascent VR hardware firsthand.
Today, the hardware and content developed around 360-degree panoramic video (a form of VR) is growing rapidly. Facebook's Newsfeed for mobile, for example, already offers 360-degree video; Google's Cardboard Camera app already supports capturing 360-degree audio and video.
The recent New York Times launch of Google Cardboard and GoPro's ongoing trial of immersive 360-degree panoramic video are also attracting consumer attention. However, it may take higher-end headsets to provide a truly immersive VR experience.
In fact, these companies can work together to create content and provide users with such an immersive experience. With the Olympics coming up in 2016, we can expect these companies to take advantage of VR technology to bring us even better immersive experiences.
Facebook's Oculus progress is noteworthy, while Sixense's STEM system has plenty to look out for, such as support for motion control, haptic feedback, and spatial awareness, which will help create a truly whole-body VR controlled interactive experience system.
With the opening ceremony just around the corner, here are five things to watch
Holographic computing, sometimes referred to as mixed reality, is a form of augmented reality (AR) that is able to superimpose digital layers (holograms) on the space around the user to form virtual objects around it.
Citi analysts once again highlight the future of VR/AR in their forecast analysis, their view is that AR technology has the potential to completely disrupt the current major digital market landscape. Many companies are exploring mixed-reality solutions. So far, Microsoft's HoloLens is getting a lot of attention. HoloLens creates a hologram that enhances and interacts with the existing physical world. The potential applications are very exciting because AR acts as a blank canvas in the real world, giving companies the opportunity to interact with users on a daily basis, whether at work or at rest. For example, companies can use AR to initiate a shopping list at home. It appears on the fridge when the user opens it, offering recommendations for items at a nearby grocery store.