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CES 2017 TREND SNAPSHOT Contact: Perry Simpson, Director [email protected] +1-805-895-2842

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CES 2017 TREND SNAPSHOT

Contact: Perry Simpson, [email protected]+1-805-895-2842

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Welcome To Age of Smart Everything.

The annual Consumer Electronics Show provides a view into the near future of what products will hit the shelves and app stores in the coming year. Though more importantly, it signals the trends that will shape technology innovation in many years to come.

Our main takeaway was that not only are sensors, connectivity, and intelligence being applied to a broader range of product categories - we’re evolving from the novelty products of the past, to much more impactful experiences.

We’ve synthesized our impressions into a snapshot of key trends - enjoy!

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AI Is Getting A Personality And Becoming Everyone’s New Best Friend

AI blanketed the show floor, powering predictive and assistant services in products for our home, workplace, and car. Some are visible to the user, such as the Kuri Home Robot, while others are (intentionally) not apparent to the user - iRobot’s Roomba vacuum cleaner leverage AI to optimize how your floors are cleaned.

What was really fascinating was the impact of Amazon’s Alexa AI platform. Large brands and startups alike are building Alexa technology straight into their products, enabling them to leapfrog new and existing products into AI-powered experiences.

It’s clear that the age of intelligent products has arrived. Yet we also know that AI technology is improving rapidly. We’re excited to see what use cases this will enable at home, on the go, and in our workplace.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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INTERACTIVE SURFACES All Surfaces Are Being Turned Into

Interactive Displays

We observed many unconventional yet familiar surface displays such as walls, mirrors, and tables. The Sony Xperia Projector was especially impressive - it beams a 23-inch touch capable projection onto your wall or table. Another interesting examples was the Ekko Mirror - it provides personalized news, notifications, and entertainment through a gesture-controlled interface.

As new use cases for display surfaces are developed, there needs to be a better understanding of how the blending of voice, gesture, and touch interactions can produce useful and desirable outcomes.

We’re excited to see what this technology will bring: What use cases will trigger mainstream adoption? What interactions have yet to be defined? And as these technologies become usable in public space, how will privacy concerns affect consumer adoption?

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AR / VR

Better Headset Options Will Open Up AR/VR For Wider Adoption

In 2016 AR/VR started feeling tangible, as long-awaited headsets like the Oculus Rift finally launched. Yet adoption seems to be slowly progressing - computing requirements made the price points high, setup proved to be cumbersome, and smartphone-powered solutions seemed to not excite consumers.

The emergence of stand-alone headsets, such as Intel’s Project Alloy concept and ODG’s sub-$1,000 smart glasses, will improve mobility and accessibility. This in turn will allow the potential of AR/VR across a wider set of use cases to be realized.

We are particularly curious to see how the availability and quality of content and apps will improve in 2017. Stronger design and development tools are needed, and the lack of an experienced talent tool in this new domain has to be addressed.

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Intelligent and Experiential Voice User Interfaces Have Arrived

The use of voice technology in products has evolved from one-way communication to enabling AI-powered experiences. Voice has become a user interface (VUI), with a natural language that facilitates interactions between machine and people.

Today, VUIs exists in people’s homes mostly in the form of speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home, and smartphones. CES showed VUI being used in many new products, for instance robots and refrigerators. But many products take a simpler approach, by adding compatibility with an existing VUI platform (e.g. Amazon Alexa) to piggyback on its adoption.

We believe that in the future, the desire for hands-free and eye-free experiences will continue making its way into the home, office, car, retail, institutions, and public spaces.

VOICE USER INTERFACE

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Robots Are Increasingly Expressive In Their Quest To Change Social Norms

Robots where everywhere at CES. We noticed the robots appeared more emotive and cute - clearly an attempt by brands to make robots more approachable to help gain broader consumer acceptance.

We do believe though that we have a long ways to go before social norms change and people begin to accept and trust robots as an integral part of their lives.

Questions also persist around the value that robots bring to people - there’s a need for better understanding people’s wants, needs, desires, fears, and concerns. Are intelligent robots a solution looking for a problem?

ROBOTS

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Moving Beyond Core Functionality Into Passenger Well-Being

Automotive OEMs and Tier 1 vendors showcased an array of new solutions for entertainment, navigation, and predictive services. Autonomous car concepts and prototypes dominated as well, but here OEMs are facing stiff competition from startups and tech titans. It’s fair to say that the driving experience is rapidly evolving.

We were inspired seeing new layers of human experiences being developed for people and their cars. An example was a heart monitor sensor on the steering wheel to detect levels of stress, and aromatherapy misting to help increase energy and counter fatigue.

Considering how many hours the average person spends daily on the road, we expect to see more innovation and rethinking of how cars can augment or extend people’s health and wellbeing.

AUTOMOTIVE

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Drones Are Finding A More Distinctive Purpose

Drones have so far been primarily adopted by enthusiasts with a deep fascination for drone technology, as well as a few niche commercial domains. The usage has mostly evolved around capturing photo and video, either for entertainment, news reporting, or surveillance.

At this year’s CES, drones showed much more variety when it comes to use cases. A great example is the PowerRay Fishfinder underwater drone, which creates an immersive and more productive fishing experience.

The commercial application of drones was also incredibly interesting and displayed clear value propositions, being used in domains like research, construction, and logistics.

However, practical, regulatory, and ethical questions remain. What are the use cases that add value and impact people and businesses alike?

DRONES

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Discreteness And Style Is Becoming The Imperative For Wearables

Wearable technology once again had a dominant presence at CES. The most established wearables categories, smartwatches and fitness trackers, continue to see loads of new product launches. There was also an expectedly large swath of new wireless earbuds.

A noticeable trend was that wearables sought to be more stylish and unobtrusive than previous years. Sensors are being built into clothing, such as the Under Armour Athlete Recovery Sleepwear. Proven functionalities are being put into smaller and more subtle form factors, a great example being the Motiv Ring which tracks activity and sleep while maintaining a fashionable and minimalist look.

As our bodies become more colonized with technology, addressing product attributes like visibility, form factor, and interactions will become increasingly important to consider. How will we interface with our wearable devices, environments, and product in the future?

WEARABLES

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Evolving From ‘Quantified Self’ To ‘Diagnosed Self’

The mainstream perception of connected health has been shaped by fitness-tracking products like Fitbit. They helped create the ‘quantified self” movement, where data was plentiful but actionable insights to improve your health were rarely provided consistently and effectively.

We’re seeing an evolution towards products that focus on preventative care and self-diagnosis solutions uses cases. The user experience is thereby also shifting from frequent and active monitoring to infrequent and outcome-driven interaction.

The Netatmo Healthy Home Coach is a good example of this trend - it monitors your home’s air, temperature, and noise to ensure a health home environment. Your interaction with the product is limited to adjusting your environment only when improvement is needed, through actionable insights such as “the air quality in Jack’s room is getting poorer, you should open a window for 15 mins. to circulate in some fresh air”.

CONNECTED HEALTH

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IIoT Goes Under The Radar But Still Has Huge Unrealized Potential

Perhaps the most under-appreciated category at CES this year was Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), but we believe this area has the some of greatest business potential within IoT.

The combination of sensors and connectivity with software intelligence becomes especially potent in the industrial domain. Cost savings, derived from increased efficiencies in operations, production, maintenance, and logistics, are typically the main business case for IIoT implementations.

Yet other benefits are also appearing, such as safety. Bosch presented its Automatic Production Assistant, a robot that leverages sensors and intelligence to provide contact-free assistance, enabling the human to work more closely with the robot without any safety risks.

INDUSTRIAL IOT

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