Various things that are expected to be announced at CES 2016

Local time From January 6 (Wednesday), the world's largest appliance fair "CES 2016" will be held in Las Vegas. There are plenty of big announcements such as various digital devices, VR technology, and automobiles.

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◆ Cars
The Verge expresses CES as "It is not an appliance fair anymore, but an event that can be expressed as a new" auto show ", but it is certainly an event of the automobile industry, CES 2016 is new An announcement is scheduled.

First, General Motors (GM) will carry out the world premiere of Chevrolet Volt (production model). By the way, GM already released a plug-in hybrid car named "Volt" of the same name in 2010, but this is "Volt", and the one newly announced is "Bolt".

Volkswagen announces the concept model of a new electric car. As a model representing the brand, it is rumored that the Wagen bus will be announced.

BMW is the next generation in-vehicle user interface "AirTouchAnnounced.

BMW Group at the CES 2016 in Las Vegas. BMW presents the principle of the contactless touchscreen with AirTouch.

BMW Group @ CES 2016, Vision Car Interior and User-Interface of the future

In addition, Ford, who has decided to cooperate with Google on self-driving cars, and Audi's attention are also gaining attention. The biggest event in the automobile industry "North American International Auto Show"Will also be held in Detroit from January 11th.

◆ Smart Home Appliances · Smart Home
Apple, Google, Samsung, Intel and others are sharpening the idea of ​​reality making dreams that "everything in the house can be operated by one switch" imagined by people in a fancy way.

With the rapid progress of smart appliances, television entered the dimension of "4K television is commonplace, 8K television also"HDRYaDolby VisionIt will be seen that the correspondence to also go forward.

Among them, Samsung is positioning TV as the core of "smart home", and the new model of the next "Smart TV" and the high-end LCD TV "SUHD TV" is Samsung's IoT (Internet of Things, Mono's Internet) platform "SmartThings Scheduled to correspond to.

In addition to Roku announcing the TV OS as software that brings new levels of simplicity to smart TVs, the evolution of organic EL televisions and LG's preceding organic EL television and Android TV are gaining attention.

The appearance of IoT, which has been portrayed as a dream for a long time, is not what everything will be realized in a single morning, but it is expected to be seen in 2016 as well.

◆ wearable terminal
In 2015Apple Watch, Fitbit, VR headset, and so on, but in 2016 it is expected that "all kinds of wearable devices" will come out further. Sensors should be built in sports sneakers, bra and clothes, everywhere.

Samsung will showcase three terminals that have been promoting as a creative lab project.

The first is a healthcare terminal "WELT". Although it looks just a belt, it records information such as the size of the waist, how much it was sitting, and helps health care.


The second is VR headset & hand motion controller "Rink". The VR headset and the controller that supports hand movement are paired so that you can play tennis with this terminal alone as shown in the picture.


The third one is a wearable terminal like a wristwatch "TipTalk". It is a device that brings a completely new user experience that allows you to listen to sound from devices such as Samsung Gear S2 simply by touching your ears with your fingers without wearing headsets or earphones. You can surely convey your voice to yourself only in places where the surroundings are quiet like a concert hall and the sound leaks, or where the noise is bad, such as near a construction site.


It is thought that "Hearable" will be the theme in 2016, and movements also come out in the field of hardware that listens to music, which was quiet as if it had nothing to do with big move about music distribution so far Let's go. Apple has decided to discontinue earphone jack on the next iPhone and have a policy to make earphone a Lighgning connection or Bluetooth connection, but Lightning connection allows you to send digital signals unlike traditional wired connections, so you can use headphones and amplifiers It can be built in the earphone and sound processing can be done with individual headphones and earphones.

However, it is not an immediate form, and it is likely that it will be concluded that spring will be around the same as the movement in 2015.

◆ VR
As for VR, we know that there will be a big leap in the first half of 2016, as Sony, Oculus, HTC will both begin shipping headsets within a few months, but with CES 2016 hardware-related announcements Is expected to become stagnant except for the Samsung's mentioned above. Regarding VR games and movies, it will be held in mid-JanuarySundance Film FestivalAnd will be held in mid MarchGDC (Game Developers Conference) 2016It is believed that something will be announced.

◆ Something that is not only "hide-board" "rideable"
The hover board floating in the air that appeared in "Back to the Future Part 2"Reproduce LexusIn addition, at KickstarterHendoThere is a startup to make a hover board saying that it looks slightly different from what I thought but marketing is also in the viewArcaBoard, "Hover board" became a hot topic in 2015.

In CES 2016, it is felt for the first time that the use of hover boards in the hall is restricted to exhibitors' booths, and it is felt how much they have approached popularization, but in 2016, new hover boards "Is expected.

First,ArcimotoWe are planning to exhibit a three-wheel electric cart. And that Segway is scheduled to announce something big.

◆ Other
For smartphones and phones that seems not to be crazy even if there is something big announcement, there seems to be no movement of large manufacturers such as Apple and Sony. Huawei and LG can be seen as smartphone and smartwatch, ZTE announcing smartphone.

Regarding cameras, this year, the biggest fair in the camera industry, which is held once every two years · Photokina is planned in September, so the move towards that is the focus and the major announcement at CES There is no prospect.

In IT, Microsoft will not make any special announcement at CES, but instead, partner companies are planning to announce laptops and tablets. Although it has not been officially announced, it is certain that Samsung will announce 13-inch and 15-inch Ultrabook.

Samsung unveils 2016 ultrabooks with Skylake chips - Liliputing
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Qualcomm will also announce self-drawn technology.

You may find amazing things from surprising places at the venue. CES 2016 starts on 6th local time.