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CES 2024: TVs, monitors, phones, chips and everything else
Every year, the biggest manufacturers and developers meet in America in January to reveal their innovations for 2024 and outshine their rivals. While manufacturers are waiting, consumers can enjoy a preview of new technology.
What's happening at this year's CES 2024? We will keep updating the list of new goodies, so stay tuned.
Apple Vision Pro
As always, Apple stole much of the spotlight by announcing that its Vision Pro XR glasses will be available in the US on February 2nd, with pre-orders opening on January 19th. Let's remember that the expected price of the Vision Pro is a dizzying 3500 US dollars, so the expectations are huge. Apple says that at launch there will be moreÄ than a million applications that will be adapted for the world of mixed reality. There will also be some games (NBA 2K24 Arcade Edition, Sonic Dream Team …) that gamers will be able to play on any screen size, according to Apple. At the same time, the new operating system VisionOS will be launched, which is of course intended for the new XR glasses. When are they coming to Europe? The date is unknown, but we hope that summer is a realistic time frame.
Diopter users will have to pay an additional #149 for dedicated Zeiss lenses for a seamless experience.
New Sony XR glasses?
Sony recently introduced PSVR2 gaming VR glasses, and at CES 2024 they presented XR glasses for designers or more business users. They will work on the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen2 platform and will be equipped with 4K OLED screens. The target group is mainly 3D designers and all those who use virtual worlds for design, prototyping and also for film production.
The system includes a ring controller that enables users to intuitively control objects in virtual space. It also includes a pointing controller that enables stable and accurate pointing in virtual space, with an optimized design and button layout for efficient and accurate operation.
LG wireless transparent OLED TV #141
Even before the start of the CES 2024 event, LG presented a new portfolio of products: new QLED and OLED TVs, soundbars and a special CineBeam Qube projector. They left the breath-taking specimen for the event itself.
The LG Signature OLED T combines a transparent 4K OLED screen and LG's technology of wireless audio and video transmission, which promises a completely different viewing experience. Simply put, it's a transparent OLED panel TV with an additional contrast screen that can be unfolded behind the screen for that more traditional TV experience. When this contrast screen is turned on, we get a transparent OLED television. LG wants users to use the new TV as an artistic product, for displaying virtual backgrounds, videos and the like. The price will certainly be high, and sales should start in the second half of the year, which is interesting, because at first we thought it was just a concept.
Samsung QD-OLED TV without reflections
Samsung is still on the third generation of QD-OLED TVs, this time it has an extra trick up its sleeve. They installed a special screen that ensures an experience without annoying reflections. This type of coating is not a new concept, but Samsung says that by specially treating the panel, they have achieved a completely different result without affecting the image quality.
RoÄn console MSI Claw
And we got another handheld portable console that wants to compete with the Steam Deck, ASUS's ROG Ally and the Lenovo Legion Go console. We recently tested the ROG Ally, which, like the rest, uses AMD's guts. MSI opted for Intel, more precisely Intel Meteor Lake Core Ultra (up to Ultra 7 155H). The price is expected to be between 699 and 799 US dollars, and sales will start in the first half of 2024. The initial configuration will have 512 GB of space, which according to our tests is very quickly insufficient, Äe you will want to have several installed like two or three AAA games.
But we are more interested in how Intel's architecture will perform. According to MSI and Intel, they should prepare the most powerful product from AMD's consoles. MSI Claw will also have a 120 Hz IPS screen with 1080p resolution, a 53 Wh battery, 500 nit brightness and 16 GB of RAM.
ASUS ROG Phone 8
It's also time for a new gaming phone from none other than the biggest name in gaming – ASUS. The ROG Phone 8 series will have three Älans: ROG Phone 8, ROG Phone 8 Pro and ROG Phone 8 Pro Edition. The starting price is €1,099, and the most expensive model with 24 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage is priced at €1,499. With the Pro versions, users will also be able to use the LED screen on the back.
The phones are lighter, thinner and more powerful than their predecessors. The latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Äip is installed, more as too of RAM even for the most enthusiastic gamers, enough space, wireless 15-W charging, IP68 water resistance and much more.
ASUS OLED monitor with 480-Hz refresh rate
Let's remember the times when 144 Hz was the highest number in the refresh field. Soon after, we got 165 Hz, then 240 Hz, and now we're spinning at 480 Hz, and that's on top of that on an OLED screen.
ASUS presented three new OLED monitors at CES 2024, two of which can reach 480 Hz (at 1080p). The 32-inch ASUS OLED can refresh the image at 240 Hz at 4K (great for RPG games), and at 480 Hz at lower 1080p (great for shooters and battle-royale games). They introduced another 27-inch #141;1440p OLED monitor, which can also refresh 480 images per second.
ASUS Zephyrus laptops from now on OLED
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 and G16 notebooks have become even thinner, lighter and stronger with a touch of OLED. They will all get OLED panels, increase the trackpad, improve overall performance with new AMD Radeon 8000 and Intel Metero Lake chips, install a new 6-speaker sound system and even more.
Kia is embarking on an autonomous journey
Kia has unveiled a fleet of autonomous electric cars as part of its Platform Beyond Vehicle program.
The PV concept series will be available in three versions: the smaller PV1, the slightly larger P5 (three additional sub-models) for shorter delivery services, and the larger PV7 with a longer range and much larger #141 ; maneuvering space for a larger number of passengers.
In the first phase (if it ever comes to life, it's a concept), the new fleet will be dedicated to vehicle sharing and delivery services in urban centers, just like Waymo, Cruise and the like are doing in America. In the future, they also want to include (unsurprisingly) generative artificial intelligence.
Hyundai believes in hydrogen
All companies strive to reduce their carbon footprint. Hyundai believes that (at least in their case) the solution is pure hydrogen, which will help them achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
"The same hydrogen must be for everyone, power everything and be available everywhere," said Jay Chang, president and CEO of Hyundai Motor Company.
Most car manufacturers believe in electric propulsion, but Hyundai and a handful of others (Honda, Toyota, GM) believe that hydrogen fuel cells are an equally good solution. Hyundai says it will use hydrogen in the passenger cars, trucks and buses it also manufactures, as well as in trams, special equipment, vessels, generators and advanced air mobility.
In the following years, a lot of attention will also be paid to the software side of cars, which of course also includes artificial intelligence, but also a new infotainment system with a rich library of applications and tools for developers who will be able to create “crazy applications”.
We will talk about the Volkswagen car
Yet another manufacturer to build generative artificial intelligence into its cars in 2024, in this case VW is partnering with OpenAI and their ChatGPT tool. The latter will be available in Tiguan, Passat, Golf models and ID electric vehicles. When? In the second quarter of 2024.
New NVIDIA graphics cards
Before the end of the month, we will get three new NVIDIA RTX Super 4000 series graphics cards, which promise more. performance than existing cards, but still at very high prices. The GeForce RTX 4080 Super will be available on January 31 for a whopping $999, or a few more euros more when we see it in Europe/Slovenia.
It is true that this is a 200 $ discount compared to the classic RTX 4080, since they want to put pressure on AMD, which offers the RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX in this range, but it is still a number, which many wallets will not like too much. We can expect up to 5 % better performance compared to the RTX 4080 (for less money), which means that the new Super card is more aimed at owners of the previous generation of cards (RTX 3080 …).
On January 17, RTX 4070 Super cards will be available for 599 $ and the more powerful RTX 4070 Ti Super for 799 $. Both of them are about 10-15 % better than the classic #141. The existing RTX 4070 Ti will soon disappear from the shelves, and the RTX 4070 will be available for a slightly lower price (549 $ in the US).
AMD also has something new
AMD has revealed a new RX 7600 XT graphics card that will complement the existing RX 7600, but with the ability to play at 1440p resolution using FSR 3 technology. The Radeon RX 7600 XT will be available from January 24th retail price 329 $ (it will definitely be more expensive in Europe). They also increased the memory from 8 GB to 16 GB, but kept the 128-bit memory bus, 32 computing units and 2048 stream processors. The total nominal power also increased. to 190 W (from 165 W). In this range, it will compete with the RTX 4060 card, but for exact results we will have to wait for the first tests.
They also introduced the new Ryzen 8000G processors for desktop computers and users who don't have an unlimited budget. AMD says that the advantage of the new processors lies in the improved NPU cores for AI acceleration and the built-in Radeon 700M graphics core, which is said to be the most powerful of all solutions to date.
The most powerful model will be the Ryzen 7 8700G for 329 $ with 8 cores that will operate between 4.2 and 5.1 GHz. The result? AMD says the processor will be able to run Baldur's Gate 3 at an average of 90 fps at 1080p resolution, low settings, and with Hyper-RX and Fluid Motion Frames enabled.
