Samsung’s CES vaporware keynote details AR glasses, fitness exoskeleton

Samsung's CES 2020 keynote wrapped up last night, and it was a wild, rapid-fire showing of things that may or may not ever come to market. Samsung called the keynote its "vision for the future of tech and innovation" so I guess these are "concepts" and not "products."

The company ran through several devices, each of which got about three minutes of presentation time with no price or release date, and then it was on to the next thing. The devices all seemed pretty early in development, and nailing down exactly how anything would work was a challenge, but here's a roundup of the things Samsung talked about at CES.

The Bixby speaker lives!

The Galaxy Home and Galaxy Home Mini. (credit: Samsung)

Before we dive into Samsung's futuristic concepts, let's point out that this is all coming from a company that is currently struggling to bring a smart speaker to market. Samsung wants to compete with the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple Homepod, so in 2018 it announced the Samsung Galaxy Home, a smart speaker with the company's Bixby voice assistant built-in. It's almost a year and a half later, and the Bixby speaker still hasn't launched. The last thing we heard about the Galaxy Home was in June, when Samsung gave the speaker a vague release window in the second half of 2020. This would be something like two years after it was announced and six years behind the launch of the Amazon Echo.

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