Ready for CES 2023? Rapid Prototypes and 3D Models Can Help

CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2023—the biggest consumer electronics show in the world—is coming up fast, to be held January 5-8, 2023. This is an exciting event featuring some of the next year’s biggest tech products and presentations from many of the most influential names in the industry.

Are your products ready to demo at CES 2023? 

If not, Empire has the modeling and manufacturing expertise to help get ready in time. In this blog, we explain how we can help. 

CES 2023: An Unmatched Opportunity to Market New Technology Products

As usual for this massive event, CES 2023 is expected to attract over 100,000 in-person attendees. This year’s event will feature 1,500+ exhibitors representing 158 different countries. Our experiences attending the CES event in the past have been truly jaw-dropping. It is simply hard to describe the scale of the show, which will be held in the 2.5 million-square-foot Las Vegas Convention Center, as well as other facilities across the city. 

CES is a truly unique business development opportunity. The Consumer Technology Association, which manages the show, notes that 290 Fortune Global 500 companies have registered to attend this year’s event, with 57% of attendees at the senior level. Over 3000 members of the media representing over 1,600 different media outlets are also expected. Featured exhibitors ranging from Amazon, to Mercedes-Benz, to John Deere demonstrate just how varied the technologies on display at this conference will be! 

Empire Group Service for CES 2023

With this much noise and activity, a prototype or digital render needs to exhibit outstanding quality to stand out. But for products still early in their development cycle, this may be easier said than done. Generating cost-effective, high-fidelity prototypes and renders in time for CES can be a real challenge for product development teams. Empire Group offers a diverse array of services that can help. Our rapid prototyping capabilities give us the ability to create high-fidelity prototypes fast, even on the timeline needed for the 2023 CES show. And, for products that are not ready for a physical prototype, our 3D renders can be a great way to offer conference attendees a compelling vision of your product. We provide a bit more details about both services below.

Rapid, High-Fidelity Prototypes

Many rapid prototyping services can provide a turnaround time of as little as a week, but this speed often sacrifices key elements of a product design, such as the materials employed and surface finish. Empire Group offers the rare combination of manufacturing processes needed to provide a fast turnaround time for high-fidelity prototypes which match the functional and/or aesthetic characteristics of the final product. With capabilities including CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, rapid injection molding, and an array of advanced additive manufacturing technologies, we can provide high-fidelity prototypes even for complex products requiring a variety of different materials and components. 

You can find more information about standard lead times on our page here, but we encourage you to reach out to our team to discuss your timeline for developing a prototype for CES.

3D Models and Renders

3D renders can be a great option when a physical prototype would be unduly burdensome (i.e. for  large or fragile products) or non-cost-effective for the present stage of development. Digital renders can be generated fast and iterated quickly. And, for some products, a high-quality 3D render may actually be the best way to show off fine-grained product details that would be too small to elicit attention on a practically sized prototype.

Empire Group provides the diverse skills in visual art, engineering, and behavioral science needed to generate high-quality renders in a timely fashion. We can help conceptualize renders for early-stage products, with discovery phase support including competitive analysis, color studies, and more. And we can transform this refined concept into a high-quality 2D or 3D digital rendering in time for CES 2023. 

You can learn more about our approach to product renders in our blog here.

Learn More About Empire Group

For CES and beyond, Empire Group offers clients a true one-stop-shop for design, prototyping and short-run production. Our team can help refine and manufacture highly complex prototypes without resorting to outsourcing to a third party. And our broad collective knowledge of product design, manufacturability, surface finishing, and more help us catch issues early, proactively suggest solutions, and function as a true end-to-end product development partner.

For a more detailed look at some of our projects, please see our selection of case studies here. Or, if you are ready to discuss your needs for CES 2023, just reach out using the form below!