Nissan has announced the unveiling of its Nissan Intelligent Mobility roadmap at CES 2019. The company has a vision to connect cars on the road to each other to achieve zero-emissions and zero-fatalities. This will be achieved through driving aids that allow you to sense more around you, while lending a helping hand when needed. Nissan envisions a future where the internal combustion engine become more efficient and electric vehicles gain more advanced technologies. Cars will be linked to the wider society as they gain the ability to interact with people, other cars, and road infrastructure. Remote vehicle operation, reduced traffic jams, more efficient car sharing and improved energy management are all goals for the next generation of Nissan vehicles. Nissan has announced the arrival of the dual-motor, all-electric LEAF NISMO RC race car. This will event will coincide with the arrival of the 2019 Nissan Leaf with improved range, power, and other improvements.



Powering the all-new Nissan LEAF NISMO RC are two electric motors at opposite ends of the chassis. The motors produce 240 kilowatts combined (120 kW each) and an astounding 640 Nm of instant torque to the wheels. They more than double the maximum power and the torque output of the previous LEAF NISMO RC, which was introduced in 2011. Drivetrain technology sourced from the new Nissan LEAF include the high-capacity lithium-ion battery and inverters. The power-to-weight ratio results in an impressive performance of zero to 100 kph in just 3.4 seconds — 50% quicker than the previous model.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Nissan to Unveil Its Vision for Electric Mobility and the LEAF NISMO RC at CES 2019

According to a report by Patently Mobile, Samsung recently filed a patent for an in-air gesture control system designed for AR and VR headsets. Such a system would use a color camera, a depth camera, and an infrared sensor with an infrared light for illumination, at the very least. Simple gestures detectable by the system might include pointing or grabbing, but there’s also a section about a “performance mode” that would let the device detect more complex gestures.



Samsung further describes that in order to detect a user’s complex gesture the full performance mode may be a mode of setting the depth sensor with the highest frame rate value and the IR sensor to emit an IR light with the highest illumination value. The headset performing in the full performance mode is able to detect the complex gesture and perform an operation corresponding to the detected complex gesture… Samsung filed this patent application in Q2 2018. It was published by USPTO earlier in Q4 2018. One of the inventors listed on Samsung’s patent filing is Ji Soo Yi, a VP at Samsung leading an AI Strategy Group that worked on Bixby 2.0 and other projects.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Samsung Patents In-Air Gesturing for VR