LG to Showcase webOS Auto at CES 2020

LG will showcase webOS Auto, their new platform for automobiles, throughout CES 2020 at its sales space and throughout its companion cubicles.

webOS Auto is based mostly on Qualcomm’s Automotive Improvement Platform (ADP) and also will help numerous content material corporations reminiscent of iHeartRadio, Mapbox, and Cerence to start with. The platform aims to compete with present automobile infotainment platforms Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto.

LG could have a demo of a related automobile at its sales space at CES 2020, the place it has partnered with Adient, to showcase the assorted companies implementation of Web radio and video streaming.

LG says that it has worked with Microsoft, Qualcomm, MS, Qt, and Luxoft to develop webOS Auto and that CES attendees will be able to see demos and use instances of the platform on the respective companion cubicles as well.

Microsoft will showcase an AVN (audio, video and navigation) system that mixes webOS Auto and the Microsoft Related Car Platform (MCVP).

Finnish software program firm, Qt will demo a human machine interface constructed utilising ‘Qt’ software, while Luxoft will show an automobile concept developed on webOS Auto.