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LatestNews 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.

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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’. 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

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

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

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