In 2024, consumer electronics will usher in a grand product blowout year, in addition to Apple's epoch-making spatial computing device Vision Pro that will be launched in February, the heat of artificial intelligence will also bring new devices that compete with mobile phones, and the next generation of game consoles from Nintendo and Microsoft Xbox will undoubtedly attract the attention of technology enthusiasts.
Here are the top 7 tech products to look forward to in 2024:
Apple's mixed reality headset Vision Pro, which claims to be leading the era of "spatial computing," will go on sale in the U.S. on February 2, and pre-orders will begin on January 19, with a starting price of $3,499.
Wall Street has previously introduced that the headset is the most expensive product launched by Apple since the iPhone, and more than three times more expensive than the most expensive flagship of the Meta Quest series of VR devices**;At the same time, Vision Pro is also Apple's first truly "Cook Era" product, from concept design to research and development, without the participation of founder Steve Jobs. 
CICC believes that compared with previous devices, Apple MR has made significant breakthroughs in display image quality, human-computer interaction, environmental perception and spatial computing developer platform, and the innovation of Apple's new MR products in hardware and software will be expected to promote the MR industry to break through the sales bottleneck of 10 million units. Through systematic combing, it is recommended to pay attention to the introduction of innovative technologies for MR parts and the new demand for testing equipment.
Southwest ** believes that after the release of Apple MR, its visual experience and augmented reality scene function improvement is expected to upgrade the positioning of XR equipment from game-based to office life-oriented, becoming a new generation of office and entertainment consumer electronic devices after PCs and mobile phones, and it is expected that by 2025, Apple's MR market space will reach 100 billion yuan.
Since the beginning of December, a number of MR-related targets in A-shares have stepped out of the board**, and some **have doubled their gains in a month.
However, Apple's own sales expectations for the original Vision Pro are conservative, and it is reported that in 2024, Apple plans to produce less than 400,000 units of the Vision Pro.
The Nintendo Switch, the world's best-selling portable game console, has been on the market for 6 years, and it is difficult to avoid the decline of growth, and the performance has long been insufficient, and even first-party masterpieces will have serious lag. In the complex scene of Nintendo's self-developed ace "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" in 2023, the game frame rate of the Switch drops directly below 20 fps.
Nintendo has previously boosted Switch sales by introducing cheaper Lite versions and upgrading OLED screens, but this has only helped in the short term and has not been able to stop the overall trend of declining sales.
Nintendo's latest annual report shows that for the entire fiscal year 2023 (ending March 31 last year), Switch sales were 17.97 million units, in line with the company's expectations (18 million), and 23 million units in the previous fiscal year, a year-on-year decline of 22%. The market generally expects that under the pressure of performance, Nintendo will release a new generation of Switch this year. However, Nintendo has not revealed any clues about the new machine, and the specific configuration and game compatibility are not yet known.
The futuristic Tesla Cyber pickup truck finally completed the delivery of the first batch of products at the end of 23 years after several ticket jumps.
Sales in 2024 will determine the success or failure of this truck.
The model starts at $60,990 and will not be mass-produced like the Model Y X due to the complexity of the process and the difficulty of mass production. Musk has said that the annual production capacity of the Cybertruck is expected to reach 250,000 units by 2025.
In addition, the Cybertruck's casing is made of stainless steel, which safety experts are concerned about could cause more serious injury to pedestrians and damage other vehicles on the road in the event of a collision.
In recent years, wireless charging technology has been basically popularized in consumer electronics, especially mobile phones.
In August last year, the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) unveiled the new wireless charging QI2 protocol and revealed the design reference and standard for QI2.
Some market analysts have pointed out that the QI2 protocol may greatly increase the popularity of wireless charging technology, and the faster and safer QI2 will become the universal charging standard, and the scenario of entangled charging cables may become a thing of the past in the next few years.
Documents from last year's lawsuit between the FTC and Microsoft unexpectedly show that Microsoft plans to update its Xbox Series X console in 2024 with a new design and features.
*The Xbox Series X, codenamed "Brooklin", has a cylindrical design and does not ship with an optical drive.
According to internal Microsoft documents, Brooklyn will have 2TB of storage from the previous 1TB, a USB-C front port with power delivery, and a new controller for a more immersive feel.
Humane, a startup founded by former Apple designers Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, released a new AI wearable hardware AI PIN last year that claims to be an alternative to the iPhone, which can be attached to clothes, has no screen, and has built-in OpenAI's GPT series of large models, which can interact with voice or projection on the palm of the hand.
In Humane's demonstration, one of the novelties of the AI PIN is that through the laser projection system, it can display information directly on the user's palm, eliminating the need for the screen as a carrier. It is equipped with a depth sensor that allows users to interact with menus through gestures, such as providing the appropriate text or changing songs. As long as the user tilts their palms in different directions, they can highlight the options of the menu, and close their palms to return to the home page.
The device is expected to ship early this year, with the entire system starting at $699, plus a $24 monthly subscription fee.
As a star company at the forefront of the AI industry, after 2023 of crazy financing and infighting, what kind of answer will OpenAI deliver?
Although there is no official news yet, there is no doubt that GPT-5 will be the blockbuster product that the industry will pay the most attention to in 2024. Some analysts pointed out that today's OpenAI's product release is comparable to Apple's heyday iPhone press conference, and each release indicates the arrival of a new technology era.
In the future, AI will not only surpass humans in terms of knowledge, but it will also be comparable to humans in reasoning and processing complex ideas, the so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI), which can do all the tasks that humans can do. GPT-5 may be expected to greatly shorten the distance between humans and AGI.