Metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are expecting to gather lot of attention at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is starting today.

The two new technologies have generated a lot of curiosity last year regarding Facebook’s massive plans to become a Metaverse company and a surge in NFT sales. NFT has been added as a new category at CES 2022.

Harmeet Singh Walia, senior analyst, Counterpoint Research says, “we shall see an impact of this on CES 2022, with various organizations referencing the metaverse. While we will not see major AR (augmented reality) glasses or VR (virtual reality) headsets being launched at CES 2022, metaverse will be omnipresent.”

At CES 2022 Samsung is demonstrating its version of Metaverse, called, My House, which will be hosted on South Korean company Naver Z’s metaverse platform Zepeto. Samsung says that ‘My House’ will showcase its products and how they can be used by consumers to improve their homes.

Robert B. Ford, chief executive of Abbot, a medical devices and healthcare company, says that his company is going to be the first from the health sector to make a CES keynote, where industry experts are invited to speak on tech trends.

On that account, health tech is also added as the new category at CES to showcase the achievements of startups fighting the COVID-19 pandemic with unique tech solutions. In fact, more than 100 health firms are expected to participate, with Opteev being one among them will demonstrate its breath analysis and instant COVID-19 room detection device, while its other, Breathings, will showcase a device that measures lung health.

“Platforms such as omniverse and metaverse are critical for the mass adoption of VR. They allow users to interact and engage with each other and with the worlds created by content creators just as in online shopping, Amazon and Alibaba act as platforms where consumers and sellers come together,” Walia adds.

However, Robotics has been the main category at CES and this year, Nvidia’s new Issac autonomous mobile robot will be introduced at the event. The robotic technology is believed to rapidly and autonomously create accurate maps for dynamic environments such as manufacturing and fulfilment centres. The firm claims that small routing optimization can help logistics firms to save billions of dollars. Also, the Isaac AMR platform is said to influence omniverse platforms to create digital twins of facilities that deploy AMRs.