Hello everybody and welcome LG’s CES 2018 press conference. We’ll be giving key updates on what LG has to say for this year’s product lineup!
08:00AM PST – This year we’ll be covering the press event remotely, however this means better snapshots for the blog.
08:02AM PST – Big data, IoT, cloud services and mostly artificial intelligence are the main topics of this conference.
08:02AM PST – LG introduces their own AI brand: ThinkQ.
08:03AM PST – LG promises the products will learn from the users and evolve with time.
08:04AM PST – The LG ThinkQ learns your living patterns and adjusts its settings based on them.
08:05AM PST – In cars, ThinkQ will be able to determine your your status, such as if you’re tired or drowsy.
08:05AM PST – LG promises to integrate ThinkQ in a variety of products and product portfolios.
08:06AM PST – Washing machines can for example automatically set the proper cycle by detecting the washing load.
08:08AM PST – LG promises openness to its AI ecosystem, with both in-house and third-party solutions.
08:08AM PST – As such open platforms, open partnership will power ThinkQ.
08:09AM PST – Open interoperability with various partners such as Google.
08:10AM PST – LG is participating in the OCF ecosystem and synergy with devices from other vendors.
08:11AM PST – LG promises a fund to kickstart the ecosystem.
08:11AM PST – Google’s Scott Huffman is join the LG stage.
08:12AM PST – Building on Google’s experience in machine learning.
08:12AM PST – The collaboration started on phones and has continued on all kinds of devices.
08:13AM PST – The LG ThinkQ speaker will integrate the Google Assistant
08:14AM PST – Google is looking forward to implement the Google Assistant in a variety of LG products in the coming year.
08:15AM PST – Promotional video playing right now, showing examples of use-cases with various household appliances.
08:15AM PST – You can now shout at your oven and fridge!
08:16AM PST – Of course privacy and security will be paramount for home connectivity, hopefully LG executes well.
08:17AM PST – David VanderWaal taking the stage with the best question: What’s the benefit?
08:17AM PST – All of 2017’s home appliances are WiFi enabled.
08:18AM PST – ThinkQ will be implemented in all of LG’s 2018 appliances.
08:18AM PST – “Offering the best, most convenient solutions to simplify people’s lives”
08:19AM PST – LG CLOi – a cute little interactive robot that talk interacts with you.
08:20AM PST – David asks what’s his schedule for his day – going to the gym, ThinkQ sets the sports wear configuration on the washing machine.
08:21AM PST – It takes into account environmental data such as the weather to adjust washing settings.
08:21AM PST – Little slip-up with CLOi on-stage, it didn’t respond to David’s request.
08:21AM PST – The washer for example talks to the dryer to set the proper cycle setting.
08:23AM PST – Moving onto fridges, NFC tags can tag food ingredients and track their expiration dates.
08:24AM PST – Quite disastrous presentation, the CLOi assistant totally stopped responding to the presenter.
08:25AM PST – The fridge can track your ingredients and present you receipts for cooking, all integrated into the home AI system.
08:26AM PST – LG’s proactive service system will connect with LG’s service centre and preemptively contact them when it diagnoses that a device is soon to be failing.
08:27AM PST – Another marketing video demonstrating the voice assistant features. Similar to Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.
08:28AM PST – Home connectivity throughout various home devices, TVs, lights.
08:29AM PST – “Why does a television need AI?”
08:30AM PST – The AI TV can provide contextualised information on content, such as telling you the actors of a given show.
08:31AM PST – Full support with Google Assistant services.
08:32AM PST – Moving to LG’s TV product line with product manager Tim Alessi.
08:32AM PST – Taking the best TV ever, and making it better in 2018.
08:33AM PST – LG’s OLED are increasingly being used in the movie and grading industry.
08:34AM PST – The new Alpha9 TV SoC enables crucial enhancements for 2018 devices.
08:34AM PST – The new SoC enables better noise reduction algorithms.
08:35AM PST – We now have a increased LUT support as well as better 120fps HFR content.
08:36AM PST – 4K HDR will be a feature for all 2018 TVs
08:36AM PST – Dolby Vision and HDR10 are supported.
08:37AM PST – LG introduces also a proprietary HDR format HLG PRO and HDR10 PRO
08:37AM PST – These include better handling of metadata.
08:38AM PST – NanoCell technology promises to improve high gamut content at better viewing angles.
08:39AM PST – Wider viewing angles usually come at a colour saturation cost, the new TVs vastly reduce the washed out images in these scenarios.
Source:-.anandtech.