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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:

  1. 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.
  2. Investment to the AR/VR and AI are accelerating.
  3. 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

 

Automotive Innovation and Augmented Reality articles

November 7th, 2016

Dr. Jennifer Colegrove recently contributed two articles at SEMI’s website. If you are interested, here are the links to SEMI’s website. Touch Display Research Inc. is a member of SEMI.

SEMI Market Info, October 25, 2016

Augmented Reality in 2017-2018

By Jennifer Colegrove, Ph.D., CEO and principal analyst, Touch Display Research Inc.

SEMI Global Update, September 27, 2016

Automotive Innovation ─$60 Billion in Opportunities

Huge Opportunities for Touch Screen, Display, Sensors and Semiconductor Companies

By Jennifer Colegrove, Ph.D., CEO and principal analyst, Touch Display Research Inc.

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and team

 

Pokemon Go’s success factor: Sensor and AR

July 18, 2016

In the park near where I live in Silicon Valley, California, I saw many people walking around holding their smart phone.  They are playing “Pokémon Go” game and catching Pokémon’s. “Pokémon Go” is the most successful augmented reality game for smart phone in history. Over 65 million people have downloaded and are playing it in USA within one week of release.

The “Pokémon Go” game is developed by Niantic Lab, which counts Google, Nintendo, etc. as its investors.

The success factors of “Pokémon Go” game include the sensors and augmented reality. Several sensors are used in this game: GPS, camera-based image sensor, short-range wireless sensor (in the wearable Pokémon Go Plus).

In the newly published “Sensors for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence market 2016 Report.”, Touch Display Research analyzed over 20 sensor technologies for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI) market. 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

Sensor AR VR 2016 forecast

Source: Touch Display Research Inc., May 2016

“Sensors are very critical components for augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence devices. For example, the HTC Vive has 80 integrated sensors,” said Dr. Jennifer Colegrove, CEO and principal analyst of Touch Display Research Inc. “AR, VR, and AI are the next big things. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung, LG, Intel, Qualcomm, Facebook are all working on these technologies.”

Figure 2:  Sensor technology categories in the report

sensor table2

Source: Touch Display Research Inc., May 2016

Over 200 companies working on sensors, emulators (learn about the Pokemon emulator), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), are profiled in the Excel database.

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and team

Google accelerates voice recognition devices

May 18, 2016

Today Google announced the Google “Home”, a voice recognition device that will compete with Amazon’s Echo. Similar to Echo, the Google Home could respond to users voice commend, play music, control the smart thermostat Nest, search the internet etc. It’ll be available by end of 2016. Price is not announced yet.

Figure: Google Home

Google home flower

Source: Google

On the same day, Google also announced two voice control based apps: Allo and Duo. Both tap into Google Assistant platform. Google claims their Google Assistant platform is the best voice recognition system.

Voice recognition is also called voice command, or voice control. It is a very critical component for augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence devices. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook are all working on this technology.

In the newly published “Sensors for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence market 2016 Report,” Touch Display Research analyzed over 30 companies working on voice recognition. This report also analyzed the other 20 sensor technologies for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI) market. These sensor technologies include: camera-based gesture control, ultrasound and radar based gesture control, eye tracking, voice recognition, photodiode sensors, proximity touch screen, motion sensor, short-range wireless, other touchless technologies, touch sensor and touch pad.

Figure 2:  Sensor technology categories in the report

sensor table2

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.

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,

Jennifer and team

CES 2016 what to expect

December 29, 2015

First of all, on behalf of Touch Display Research Inc., we wish you a Happy New Year.

In early January, I’ll travel to Las Vegas for CES 2016. At CES, we expect to see:

  1. Flexible or transparent OLED digital signage from LG and Samsung. In the “Flexible OLED display technologies, supply chain and market forecast 2015 report”, Touch Display Research analyzes flexible OLED display technologies, manufacturing process, other competing technologies, and shows the flexible OLED display had attracted over 180 companies and research institutes.

Figure 1. Flexible OLED display industry ecosystem with over 180 companies and research institutes

Flexible OLED 180 ecosys

Source: Touch Display Research.

  1. We’ll see Quantum Dot displays from most OEMs at CES 2016. In the “Quantum Dot Display and Lighting Technologies and Market Forecast 2015 Report” Second Edition, Touch Display Research forecasts that the quantum dot display and lighting component market will surpass $2 billion by 2016 and reach $10.6 billion by 2025. This report profiles over sixty companies working on quantum dot materials and quantum dot components.

Figure 2. AUO’s 85” quantum dot TV with 3M and Nanosys’ QDEF

AUO 85 QD TV with TDR

Photo by: Touch Display Research

  1. Augmented reality and virtual reality with touch and touchless sensors. In the newly published “Touchless Human-Machine Interaction Sensor Market 2015 Report,” Second Edition, Touch Display Research forecast gesture control, voice recognition, and other Touchless HMI sensor market will reach $44 Billion by 2021.

Figure 3. Touchless HMI Sensor Technologies and Companies

touchless company number 2015

Source: Touch Display Research

See you at CES 2016. If you can’t make it, it’s OK, we’ll have CES 2016 review in the “Touch and Emerging Display monthly report”.  You can subscribe on our website in the Market research report page.

Thanks for reading,

Jennifer and team