On January 9, local time in the United States, Las Vegas, located on the edge of the desert in Nevada, and the lowest rainfall in the United States, in Las Vegas. In the 2018 CES, the first day of a rare underground rainstorm.
However, heavy rain did not extinguish people's enthusiasm for participation. From PlanetHolloween to the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) about 4 kilometers, originally a 10-minute drive away, the car the reporter took took almost an hour to reach his destination - on the way to the exhibition, the road Full of large and small vehicles.
People are going to CES to "gold rush." So what does this year's CES have?
Smart everywhere
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Intelligence is the biggest perception of this science and technology show. In fact, at the CES booth, it is also inseparable from the topic of intelligence. “We can see a very clear trend, that is, artificial intelligence has basically completely penetrated into various product lines and businesses of consumer electronics.†On the day of CES, Jing Ye, General Manager of Baidu Distinctive Division, was interviewed by a 21st Century Business Herald reporter. Shi said, "Artificial intelligence has become a global wave."
The LVCC North Pavilion has basically evolved into an automobile exhibition hall. Smart cars rushed by various manufacturers have appeared here, and the related parts and components and supply chain manufacturers have also exhibited. South Pavilion, AR, VR, speakers, TV, robots and other products are dizzying. Among them, Ant Vision Technology has exhibited a prototype of Mix, which has a field of view of up to 96 degrees and can be freely switched in AR/VR technology; HTC announced a VivePro device that reaches a monocular 3K level; Oculus has released a VR helmet called OculusGO. With panoramic sound near field headphones.
Before the DuerOS booth, one of the participants fiddled with RavenH. According to the staff, this cuboid smart speaker, which consists of eight colored squares, has a detachable "mobile control screen brain." On the other side of the horizon booth, a participant sat in an open driver's seat and a screen in front of the seat showed a car walking on a city road. "Please pay attention to safety!" When the "driver" eyes slammed elsewhere, the driver monitoring system began to issue an alarm.
“This system uses a monocular infrared camera, which can determine fatigue and attention status and give warning warnings according to the driver’s facial state.†On January 10, 2018, a horizon staff told a 21st Century Business Herald reporter.
The Central Pavilion, including Samsung, LG, Hisense, Qualcomm, Intel and other large manufacturers are located here. LG's smart voice assistant, CLOi, with gray-blue eyes, "sold up" in front of people. According to LG staff, the assistant can control a variety of home appliances and have deep learning capabilities. Samsung's Bixby voice assistants are also equipped in their own home appliances, and together with the newly released Smartthing APP and the cloud, they jointly provide intelligence to all things.
Hard and soft trend
The continued deepening of intelligence brings the trend of soft and hard integration.
According to past experience, Google usually cooperates with hardware partners to participate in the exhibition, but this year, Google chose to set up an independent exhibition and has a large booth, the news said that Google will launch Pixel2 series mobile phones, VR headsets, Laptops and smart speakers at the booth and many more.
Amazon also set up an Alexander booth for voice assistance at this year's CES to further promote its advantages in smart homes. According to StrategyAnalytics' analysis report, as of the end of last year, Amazon Alexa's market share reached 69%, and GoogleAssistant's market share was 25.3%.
"Amazon Alexander and GoogleAssistant have been very much publicized this year, and the trend of marching toward smart hardware has become more and more obvious." Jing Hao told the 21st Century Business Herald reporter.
In fact, the move to hardware is not limited to only Amazon and Google. On January 8th, Baidu DuerOS and partners announced three new products: Small Fish Home VS1 smart video speakers, Sengled Shengdi smart speaker lights and popInAladdin smart projection ceiling lamps. In addition, hardware such as ravenH smart speakers, TCL smart TVs, and CITIC Guoan Guangshi intelligent set-top boxes also appeared in the DuerOS booth.
The Alibaba artificial intelligence laboratory announced that it will launch a Bluetooth IoT chip with IoTConnect protocol with MediaTek after launching the smart speaker Tmall Genie. Among them, IoTConnect is an open connection protocol for the Wi-Fi, and smart devices will be more easily connected to the Tmall Elves.
“Intelligent voice interaction is a relatively mature technology direction in the field of artificial intelligence. The reason why software companies start to do hardware is actually to combine technology with hardware to make technology land.†Xiang Yang, deputy general manager of CCID Consulting's artificial intelligence research center, told the 21st century Economic report reporter.
In addition to the "hard" Internet companies, traditional hardware vendors are also trying to become "soft." In addition to Samsung’s own intelligent voice assistant Bixby and LG’s CLOi, TV products including LG, Panasonic and other manufacturers put Google Assistant on display, while LG Home and Hisense Television embraced Amazon’s Alexanda.
To be explored
However, whether it is from hard to soft, or from hard to soft, from the current situation, there is no truly universally accepted product. "Intelligent voice technology is relatively mature, so the user's requirements and expectations for the product will be even higher." Xiangyang told reporters in the 21st Century Business Herald that he would say.
In fact, during the testing process at the CES site, multiple manufacturers of smart speakers and smart TVs all experienced unrecognized or recognized errors during voice interactions. In this connection, related manufacturers told reporters of the 21st Century Business Herald that the reason for this phenomenon was due to the fact that there were too many people on the site, poor WiFi, and loud noises. In a family environment, this situation would not occur.
However, they still reflect the possible user experience problems in the process of landing intelligent voice technology: not all voice interaction scenarios are in the home environment, even in the home environment, may encounter noise, wifi is not smooth and so on .
Another problem is that, for the current user's life, intelligent voice interaction is more similar to the function of product add-on, not just one. Therefore, early adopters are still a minority, and most users still stay in the "safe area" of experience.
“Actually, the demand side should be divided into groups and scenarios.†Jing Hao explained to the 21st Century Business Herald reporter: “From our survey, including the elderly and children, the demand for intelligent speech interaction is higher than that of adults. The relevant products of these people are expected to become breakthrough points."
The cat's product promotion is also based on scenes. Xue Xue, general manager of the Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, told 21st Century Business Herald reporter that the landing scene of the Tmall Elves currently includes nursing homes, mother and child rooms, hotels, etc., to control different scenes of home equipment, to facilitate different types and different needs of the crowd .
Bai Lu, general manager of hardware hardware Lu Hao stressed that the need to determine the overall direction of technology should be seen. "Now that manufacturers provide technology to users is a means to better solve things, they gradually convince users. Whether it is Google, Amazon or Apple, can not ensure that fully meet the needs of the user's most satisfactory. However, anyway, technology development The trend is obvious."
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