Samsung held a product launch at this year's CES and released a variety of new products such as ordinary notebook computers, game console computers, refrigerators, televisions, smart remotes, and smart watches. In addition, numerous other heavy news were revealed. Xiao Bian will make a summary of the main line for this conference.
Samsung CES booth
1.Samsung Announces Gear VR Sales of 5 Million Users Over 10 Million Hours
Tim Baxter, president of Samsung USA, announced that as of now, Gear VR sales have reached 5 million units, and users spend more than 10 million hours on 360° VR video, some of which are downloaded via the Gear 360 camera.
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Tim Baxter, President, Samsung USA
This news is really exciting for the VR industry, especially software developers, because many reports have exposed the VR market downturn. At present, in the entire VR industry, mobile VR occupies a large share compared with PC-side VR hardware.
Notebook Odyssey
2.Samsung enters game industry to release Notebook Odyssey Computer
Samsung released a notebook notebook Odyssey for gamers. This is Samsung's first move into the gaming industry.
The computer has two types of sizes, 15.6 inches and 17.3 inches. It is equipped with an Inter Core i7 processor with a 1920 x 1080 screen. The 15.6-inch RAM is 32GB, the 256GB PCIE SSD, 1TB HDD storage, and the Nvidia GTX1 graphics card 1050. The battery is 43Wh and weighs 2.53kg. The 17.3-inch configuration has 64 GB RAM, 512 GB PCIE SSD, 1 TB HDD storage, 93Wh battery and weighs 3.79 kg. The graphics card is unknown. At the same time, because it is a game console, HexaFlow vents are configured.
Although Samsung did not disclose the purpose of releasing game computers, we can also guess. Obviously, Samsung is to pave the way for a new game industry. For example, VR games need high-performance computers to run. In the future, Samsung is likely to occupy a brand new gaming platform by working with the Gear VR team and Facebook to make laptops.
Samsung Next
3.Samsung invests 150 million U.S. dollars to support early emerging start-ups
Samsung announced that it will set up a $150 million fund to help emerging technology startups, including VR, AI, Internet of Things and other "frontier technologies."
Currently, Samsung has invested in 10 startups, including Converge Industries, Dashbot, and Entry Point VR.
This fund is managed by the Samsung Next Division and is mainly used in the seed round to B round investment. The Next division was formerly known as the Samsung Global Innovation Center, which is mainly responsible for finding high-tech and startup companies to invest in Samsung's future ecological development.
At the conference, Samsung announced that it has added a Tel Aviv office in Israel and will add more centers in the second half of this year. So far, Samsung has set up five offices in San Francisco, California, South Korea, New York and Tel Aviv.
Samsung Chromebook
4.Samsung releases two new Chromebooks main Android applications
Samsung and Google partnered to launch the new Chromebook Plus and Pro laptops. The Chromebook weighs 2.5 pounds and is equipped with a 1366 x 768 resolution 11.6-inch anti-glare display equipped with an Intel Celeron N3050 processor (with integrated Intel HD Graphics Core), 2GB/4GB RAM, and 16GB eMMC ROM.
In addition it also has 802.11 ac 2x2 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, 720p high-definition camera, curved keycaps, 1.5Wx2 stereo speakers, 33Wh battery (live 11 hours).
The Chromebook Plus is priced at $449. It was launched on February 12 with the Google Play Store version. Pro's price is undecided, but it is expected to be more expensive than Plus and may be available for sale later this spring.
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