CES 2023 preview: What to expect at the Las Vegas tech extravaganza
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Next week at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, we'll once again be able to see and hear about the latest tech trends in person.
Last year's event also took place in person, but that was a shadow of its former self as the Omicron wave of COVID-19 took its toll. The event only drew around 45,000 last year, well below the 175,212 who showed up in January 2019. This year, they expect around 100,000 people to show up, according to Gary Shapiro, CEO of Consumer Technology Association, the trade group staging the event.
Last year's event felt like a ghost town. At least it looked like it in the photos, because I canceled my trip about a week before the show after everyone canceled their appointments with me. The same kind of cancellation tsunami didn't happen this year.
This year, the show kicks off Tuesday morning with parallel virtual events from Nvidia and Acer. I think it's safe to say that we'll see plenty of new PC gaming chips and rigs announced. The difference this year is that due to the recession, we can probably expect to buy more of these products sooner than we were able to during the shortages of the past two years.
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register hereA few thousand journalists will begin converging on Las Vegas on Tuesday and Wednesday for media events that will officially begin with a technology trends talk by Steve Koenig, VP of Research at CTA, followed by the press event Opening CES Unveiled. If this is your first time attending the show, check out my CES tips and tricks. On Wednesday, major companies like LG, Panasonic, Samsung, TCL and Sony will hold their press conferences where they will showcase the new products coming this year.
By Thursday, the show's main floors will open with nearly 3,000 exhibitors in more than 2.1 million square feet of space, Shapiro said. That's down from 4,500 exhibitors and 2.9 million square feet in January 2020. But it's still a big show and it runs through Sunday.
And while CES is still a place for giants like Samsung and Sony, the show will have 1,000 new exhibitors, and it will also have its traditional Eureka Park startup space in the Venetian.
The big trends
Last week, PR Newswire reported that there was a 340% increase in mentions in CES 2023 press releases, with more than 66 mentions in 2022 compared to 2021.
NFT mentions increased by 200% to 12, up from four. Durability mentions rose 63% to 49, from 30. Robots were mentioned 49 times, up just 2% from 48 a year ago. Losers? Augmented reality fell 12%, from 34 to 30, and wearables fell 38%, from 88 to 55.
In our interview, Shapiro said we would see an “incredibly strong” health tech category. Shapiro expects us to see lots of food tech, like one from a company called Suvie, that cooks while you're away and is ready when you get home.
Based on the presentations I receive, I think we will see a lot of technologies related to AI, health wearables, energy saving devices, Internet of Things (IoT) , sleep care, elderly care, mental care, smart cars, robots and virtual reality (at least think Sony and HTC).
Connect with the leaders of gaming and the online metaverse at GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 3 on February 1-2. Register here.
Next week at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, we'll once again be able to see and hear about the latest tech trends in person.
Last year's event also took place in person, but that was a shadow of its former self as the Omicron wave of COVID-19 took its toll. The event only drew around 45,000 last year, well below the 175,212 who showed up in January 2019. This year, they expect around 100,000 people to show up, according to Gary Shapiro, CEO of Consumer Technology Association, the trade group staging the event.
Last year's event felt like a ghost town. At least it looked like it in the photos, because I canceled my trip about a week before the show after everyone canceled their appointments with me. The same kind of cancellation tsunami didn't happen this year.
This year, the show kicks off Tuesday morning with parallel virtual events from Nvidia and Acer. I think it's safe to say that we'll see plenty of new PC gaming chips and rigs announced. The difference this year is that due to the recession, we can probably expect to buy more of these products sooner than we were able to during the shortages of the past two years.
EventGamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 3
Join the GamesBeat community online, February 1-2, to review the results and emerging trends within the metaverse.
register hereA few thousand journalists will begin converging on Las Vegas on Tuesday and Wednesday for media events that will officially begin with a technology trends talk by Steve Koenig, VP of Research at CTA, followed by the press event Opening CES Unveiled. If this is your first time attending the show, check out my CES tips and tricks. On Wednesday, major companies like LG, Panasonic, Samsung, TCL and Sony will hold their press conferences where they will showcase the new products coming this year.
By Thursday, the show's main floors will open with nearly 3,000 exhibitors in more than 2.1 million square feet of space, Shapiro said. That's down from 4,500 exhibitors and 2.9 million square feet in January 2020. But it's still a big show and it runs through Sunday.
And while CES is still a place for giants like Samsung and Sony, the show will have 1,000 new exhibitors, and it will also have its traditional Eureka Park startup space in the Venetian.
The big trends
Last week, PR Newswire reported that there was a 340% increase in mentions in CES 2023 press releases, with more than 66 mentions in 2022 compared to 2021.
NFT mentions increased by 200% to 12, up from four. Durability mentions rose 63% to 49, from 30. Robots were mentioned 49 times, up just 2% from 48 a year ago. Losers? Augmented reality fell 12%, from 34 to 30, and wearables fell 38%, from 88 to 55.
In our interview, Shapiro said we would see an “incredibly strong” health tech category. Shapiro expects us to see lots of food tech, like one from a company called Suvie, that cooks while you're away and is ready when you get home.
Based on the presentations I receive, I think we will see a lot of technologies related to AI, health wearables, energy saving devices, Internet of Things (IoT) , sleep care, elderly care, mental care, smart cars, robots and virtual reality (at least think Sony and HTC).
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