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Leading automotive supplier demonstrates Ultrahaptics’
mid air haptics in concept car at CES® 2017
5th January 2017. Ultrahaptics
today announced that its
touch-free haptic feedback
solution is integrated into a new
concept car being exhibited
by a major tier 1 supplier into
the automotive industry at CES
2017.
Bosch, the developer of the car,
is demonstrating the technology
on its booth in the Central Hall
of the Las Vegas Convention
Center from January 5th – 8th
2017.
Ultrahaptics’ touchless haptic technology enhances gesture
control, providing a leading-edge human–machine interface
(HMI) to Bosch’s infotainment system. The Ultrahaptics
solution offers drivers the reassurance that their hands are
in the right area for a gesture to be recognised and an
immediate haptic response to an instruction. This makes
driving safer as it avoids accidental cancellation of the
command or the need for drivers to take their eyes off
the road and check the display
visually.
Ultrahaptics’ technology uses
ultrasound to generate a haptic
response directly onto the
user’s bare hands, without the
need for them to hold special
equipment. Gesture controls can
be used to operate infotainment
systems, such as in-car audio
and connected-car applications,
more intuitively. Ultrahaptics
is engaged with the Bosch HMI Group across a variety of
applications.
Steve Cliffe, CEO of Ultrahaptics, said: ‘The growth we
have seen this year and the breadth of applications where
our technology is being utilised is staggering. The Bosch
application at CES demonstrates how touchless gesture-
recognition can help car makers gain greater market
acceptance for the incorporation of gesture control’.
Qualcomm and ODG Announce the First Augmented
Reality Smartglasses Powered by the New Snapdragon
835 Processor
At CES® 2017 today, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a
subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM),
and ODG (Osterhout Design Group), a leading developer
and manufacturer of mobile headworn computing and
augmented reality technologies and products, announced that
R-8 and R-9 will be the first announced devices powered by
the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 835 processor, which uses
10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology to enable
a new generation of premium consumer devices in small
form factors with breakthrough performance and superior
power efficiency. R-8 is ODG’s first consumer mobile AR/VR
smartglasses, targeted at the consumer early adopter, and R-9
is for a wide variety of wide field-of-view (FOV) experiences
from light enterprise, to prosumer media consumption, and as
a development platform for sophisticated mobile AR/VR and
smartglasses applications.
“The premium Snapdragon 835 processor was designed from
the ground-up to support new and innovative products and
experiences beyond mobile phones, and it’s great to see
that the first announced Snapdragon 835 devices will be
ODG’s smartglasses,” said Raj Talluri, senior vice president,
product management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “Thermal
dissipation on a heavy compute but small device is very difficult
so higher power efficiency is a must. The Snapdragon 835
processor, with our unique SoC design expertise on a 10nm
process node, enables ODG to meet their design goals and
develop lighter, smaller and sleeker smartglasses that take
advantage of the new processor’s superior performance
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