The biggest tech trend to watch in 2022

 The biggest tech trend to watch in 2022

Electric cars, interoperable smart homes, and “metaverses” will appear at CES unless canceled first.

Before the show and the rest of the year kicks off in earnest, we want to release a crystal ball to help you discover what the new year means to technology in your life. Some of the developments we will talk about have already been discussed a long time ago. Some continue the growth or change we saw in 2021.

In many ways, 2022 will be a "hurry-and-wait" year for Carolina Milanesi, a technology analyst at the research firm Creative Strategies. He said it will take time to catch up with major technological advances such as the "Metaverse", autonomous vehicles, and increasing repair capabilities, and businesses must be careful not to do too much.

At the same time, businesses need our involvement more than ever. Smart home technology, wearables for health, and virtual reality rely on data to improve. If you don't have enough trust in the company to fully share, the technology will stay at the "my voice assistant still doesn't understand me" stage.

Here's what we'd like to see, and in some circumstances hope to see in 2022.

A career in 'Metaverse'

Facebook's parent company, Meta, generated more excitement when it entered the metaverse, a theoretical collaboration space where people could mingle in virtual reality, but other tech giants were no different.

According to Rolf Illenberger, CEO of virtual reality software maker VRdirect, 2022 will be a "metaverse race" in which big tech companies fight for a share of emerging markets. Google, Microsoft, and Apple could introduce their headsets and operating systems for the metaverse, just like PCs and smartphones. (How can this collection of surrounding virtual environments remain "meta"? The Giants aren't alone. In recent years, parts of the CES showroom have become playgrounds for beginners. Zoom in and create virtual reality and many people want to create it. Metadata warehouses have their mark, meanwhile, there is another hurdle that the industry needs to clarify: Companies that make software that works with metadata repositories need to ensure that their programs work well with other systems.

For the rest of us, the first step in metadata might be for business. The pandemic has forced businesses to move to virtual reality for recruitment, training, and meetings. But as consumer technology catches up, the metaverse will appear in work and everyday life, but don't get too excited. There is still a long way to go before what tech companies describe as a "meta-universe" becomes a reality, and many questions will be answered.

A smart home will make more sense

If you go to a retail store with a big box or hardware store, it won't take long to find smart home items like installed light bulbs and thermostats. Finding the right one for the product you already have can take a while, but it doesn't take long.

Some of the Big Tech giants, including Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung, have come together to build a new standard for smart homes called Matter. Purpose: To ensure that future consumer electronics purchases work well with each other, no matter who made them or which virtual assistants you want to use to interact with.

"Now, when you see a device connected to a smart home, you have to look at what the ecosystem is doing here," said Erik Kay, vice president of engineering at Google. "Wherever Materia and I go, you don't have to think about it."

Given how regional some of these companies are, it can be hard to imagine working together on these projects. But things change and if you're lucky, you can get your first taste of Matter-compatible hardware at CES.

Electric vehicles are mainstream.