Sony has taken MWC to show off the Xperia X and Xperia XA – but it also has a number of exciting concept designs to show off as well.
One of these concepts is for a personal assistant called the Xperia Agent that will give you useful information, communicate with you and also allow you to control your home.
It uses Sony's voice technology to communicate and will be controlled by either your voice or gesture controls. It all sounds a lot like the Amazon Echo.
Hello, Agent
The Xperia Agent will also have a projector to show content on blank surfaces in your home.
Sony sadly doesn't have an Xperia Agent device ready for the market, but it's interesting that Sony has embraced voice assistant technology for the first time.
If the voice technology takes off, we may see a competitor to the likes of Siri and Cortana in future Sony phones.
The same projection technology is also used in another Sony concept called the Xperia Projector. The concept is a small projector that will fire onto any clear surface but will also respond to touch, voice and gestures much like a smartphone does.
Sony also revealed a concept for a wearable wide-angle lens camera called the Xperia Eye. It will attach to clothing or worn around the neck in the company's smallest ever camera device.
It would allow for 360-degree field of view and will detect faces and voices to make it easier capturing photos.
This again is just a concept though, and in a year when other companies have created 360 cameras it's a bit of shame Sony hasn't got a finished product ready to put up for sale.
Take a look at the Sony Xperia X and Xperia XA
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Original source: MWC 2016: Sony is working on its own version of Amazon Echo.
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