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Apple, Microsoft, Facebook’s acquisitions of sensors for AR VR and AI

June 14, 2021—In the recently published “Sensors for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence market 2021-2030 Report, second edition,” Touch Display Research analyzed over 400 companies working on over 20 sensor technologies: touch sensor and touch pad, gesture control, eye tracking, voice recognition, and other sensors. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook’s acquisitions of sensors for AR VR and AI are analyzed in this report.

Figure. Sensors for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence market 2021-2030 Report, 2^nd edition

Source: Touch Display Research Inc., June 2021

“Sensors are very critical components for augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence devices,” said Dr. Jennifer Colegrove, CEO and principal analyst of Touch Display Research Inc. “AR, VR, MR and AI are the next big things. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Sony, Samsung, Qualcomm, are all working on these technologies. This Sensors for AR, VR, MR, AI 2021-2030 report, second edition, included many good progresses and lessons learned in the past 6 years, and provided business strategy recommendations for you to use right now,”

This report is a comprehensive analysis of the over 20 sensor technologies for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), MR and artificial intelligence (AI) market.
We arranged the over 20 sensor technologies into 10 categories: touch sensor and touch pad, camera-based gesture control, authentication, object, position, ultrasound and radar based gesture control, eye tracking, voice recognition, photodiode sensors, proximity touch screen, motion sensor, short-range wireless and other touchless technologies.
Over 400 companies working on sensors, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), are profiled in the Excel database.
Key players are analyzed one-by-one in Chapter 16.
Dr. Colegrove, author of this report, was the first analyst to write a comprehensive Touch screen industry report since 2006, and was the first analyst to write a comprehensive Sensor for AR VR and AI report since 2016. She performed first hand surveys and interviews with many sensor suppliers and OEM/ODMs.
This report provides a regional analysis for the U.S., Germany, Japan, Canada, Taiwan and other countries.
Market data in the report includes 6 years historical data (2015 to 2020) and 10 years forecasts data from 2021 to 2030.
The market forecast includes sensor unit, ASP ($) and Revenue, with detailed breakdown by 3 markets: augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI).

Reasons to pick these reports:

We survey and interview hundreds of companies annually to provide the first-hand information and analysis in this report.
Dr. Colegrove, author of this report, performed first-hand surveys and interviews with many sensor suppliers, and OEM/ODMs.
Find potential clients or partners from the list of over 400 companies
Deeper understanding of many sensor technologies and the landscape to refine your technology roadmap
Anticipate industry challenges, determine market status
Obtain sensors and AR, VR, MR, AI market intelligence, understand market trends and profit from it
Know your competitors; these reports will be your advantage
Invest in the right areas and avoid costly wrong investment
Empower your business planning, make fact-based decisions

The “Sensors for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence market 2021-2030 Report, second edition” is available immediately.

This report includes:

PowerPoint file: >500 pages
Excel database: Profiled >400 companies and research institutes, 6 years history data (2015 to 2020), 10 years market forecast 2021 to 2030 with Unit, ASP, Revenue, Summary and comparison of many sensor technologies
Published: June 7, 2021
Price: $5200 for single user, $5900 for multiple users in a company
Bonus: Client can have a 30-minute free phone call with the author Dr. Jennifer Colegrove, within 3 months of purchase

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CES 2019: OLED, Quantum Dot, Micro LED, Sensors Plus AI

Jan 9^th, 2019, by Jennifer Colegrove, Ph.D., CEO and Principal Analyst, Touch Display Research

I’m at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. The weather is nice this year (not like last year’s rain at CES), cloudy and cool.

As an industry analyst, the Monday’s press conference is a MUST for me to attend every year. This Monday I attended the press conference of TCL, Toyota, Samsung, Intel, and Taiwan Excellence. I also attended the Showstopper Launchit event.

Figure: CES 2019 press conference

Photo source: Touch Display Research.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, I visited and talked to many companies at CES.

This year’s CES continued several trends from last year, and brought them up to a new level. The CES 2019 key trends include: OLED, Quantum Dot, Micro LED, Sensors Plus AI (Artificial Intelligence), etc.

In the Quantum Dot Market 2018 report, 5^th edition, Touch Display Research forecasts the global quantum dot market will reach $16.6 billion by 2028. What is the new quantum dot progress at CES 2019?

In the Micro LED 2018 to 2028 Report, all the methods to fabricate micro and mini LED displays along with their supply chains are analyzed and put into 15 method categories. Which new companies are showing micro LED at CES 2019?

What is TCL’s new strategy for 2019? What is Samsung’s new strategy for 2019?

Which startup companies are showing promising new technologies?

All these will be covered in the upcoming Touch and Emerging Display monthly report, CES 2019 special report next week.

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and team

AWE 2018 key takeaways

May 31, 2018, By Jennifer Colegrove Ph.D. Principal Analyst, Touch Display Research Inc.

I just returned from AWE (Augmented World Expo) USA 2018 conference. AWE is the largest event dedicated to AR, VR and wearable technologies.

Figure: AWE USA 2018

Photo source: AWE

This is my third year to attend the AWE conference. The key takeaways are:

Augmented reality and virtual reality is expanding in both enterprise and consumer market. Hundreds of enterprises are already using AR/VR and AI to help with saving cost. Consumer market is also gearing up with a dozen applications showing at this year’s AWE exhibition.
Investment to the AR/VR and AI are accelerating.
Human machine interface (HMI) still need improvement. We are still not there yet. The combination of several sensor fusions are needed. There are over 20 types of sensor technologies are used for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

Figure 2: Sensor technologies for AR VR and AI

	10 sensor technologies categories for AR VR AI
1	Camera-based gesture
2	Camera-based eye tracking
3	Ultrasound or radar-based gesture
4	Voice recognition
5	Photodiode sensor
6	Proximity touch screen
7	Motion sensor fusion
8	Short-range wireless sensor
9	Other touchless tech
10	Touch sensors and touch pad

Source: Sensors for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence market 2016 Report. Touch Display Research Inc.

Touch Display Research forecasts that sensors for AR, VR, and AI market will reach $160 billion in 2022.

More analysis and review can be found in the “Touch and Emerging Display monthly report” June 2018 report.

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and team

Tesla will use more than 21 sensors for advanced driver assistant system

October 20^th, 2016

This week, Tesla announced that all Tesla vehicles produced in their factory – including Model 3 – will have the improved sensors for full self-driving capability.

Beginning with vehicles manufactured in late 2014, all new Tesla Model S vehicles come equipped with a camera mounted at the top of the windshield, forward looking radar, and ultrasonic sensors in the front and rear bumpers.

Triggered by the deadly accident in this May, Tesla’s CEO, Mr. Elon Musk, indicated that Tesla will update the Autopilot in end of September/early October to Autopilot 8.0. They’ll change the camera-as-the-primary-technology ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistant System) to radar-as-the-primary-technology ADAS.

Touch Display Research believes Tesla’s radar-as-the-primary ADAS still needs camera in it, since radar can’t detect the traffic light color, nor pained lines for lanes. Camera is still necessary in the ADAS.

This week, Tesla announced they’ll integrate more than 21 sensors for their cars: 8 surround cameras provide 360 degree visibility around the car. 12 updated ultrasonic sensors complement this vision, allowing for detection of both hard and soft objects. A forward-facing radar with enhanced processing capable of seeing through heavy rain, fog, dust and even the car ahead.

To process all the data collected from the 21 sensors, Tesla also upgraded their new onboard computer with more than 40 times the computing power of the previous generation.

The automotive industry’s adoption of new technologies has accelerated in the past couples of years. ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistant Systems) includes many features. The top 3 most popular/critical features are automatic emergency braking, pre-collision warning, and blind-spot warning.

Figure 1. Automotive innovations: touch, display, ADAS and touchless human-machine-interaction

Source: Automotive touch, display, ADAS and touchless 2016 report, Sept 2016, Touch Display Research Inc. Drawing credit: Parrot

In the recently published “Automotive touch, display, ADAS and touchless HMI 2016 report,” Touch Display Research Inc., a market research and consulting firm, analyzes automotive touch screen, display, ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistant System), and touchless human-machine-interaction (HMI).

Touch Display Research forecasts the overall automotive touch, display, ADAS and touchless HMI market will grow from $15 billion in 2017, to $60 billion in 2023.

Figure 2. Automotive touch, display, ADAS and touchless HMI revenue forecast

Source: Automotive touch, display, ADAS and touchless 2016 report, September 2016, Touch Display Research

Currently ADAS feature is optional in many high-end cars, and we believe it will quickly become a must for many new buyer. By 2022, ADAS will become standard in most American cars. The $60 billion opportunity will be gobbled by over 500 companies, which include approximately 100 automotive companies, approximately 200 touch screen companies, over 200 touchless human-machine-interaction (HMI) companies and approximately 30 display companies.

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and team

Sensors for AR VR and AI presentation video on YouTube

August 5, 2016

About two months ago, on behalf of Touch Display Research, I gave a presentation about “Sensors for augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence” at AWE (Augmented World Expo) 2016 conference.

Figure: Dr. Colegrove gave presentation at AWE 2016 conference

Source: AWE, YouTube

Now the presentation video is released on YouTube. Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoysGr4ux2A

In the recently published “Sensors for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence market 2016 Report,” Touch Display Research forecasts that sensors for AR, VR, and AI market will be $97 billion in 2017, and will reach $160 billion in 2022.

Figure. Sensors for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence market forecast

Source: Touch Display Research Inc., May 2016

Over 200 companies working on sensors, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), are profiled in the Excel database.
The “Sensors for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence market 2016 Report” is available immediately and includes a PowerPoint file (over 300 pages) and an Excel database.
License for less than five users is $5200 for this report; License for five or more users is $5900 for this report.
You can subscribe on our website: www.touchdisplayresearch.com in the Market Research Report page or contact us by email: jc@touchdisplayresearch.com

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and team