The 2017 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, which concluded today in Las Vegas, featured boatloads of new technologies, driverless cars full of new technologies. Many of these advances, particularly Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality, have great appeal to marketers.
AI, AR, and VR are poised to be transformative technologies for marketers — if not right this minute. For the most part, aside from some tentative and necessary experimentation, marketers remain focused on what can help them immediately.
This cross section of 12 quotes from the CES sessions indicates that marketers, for now, will pay more attention to more familiar acronyms, such as CM (content marketing); DDM (data-driven marketing); and CX (customer experience) than to AI, AR, and VR:...
12 quotes from the Consumer Electronics Show show that marketers are intrigued by new technologies such as AI, AR, and VR, but are hesitant to invest heavily in these nascent technologies right now.