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“#CES gadget show turnout falls more than 75% thanks to COVID<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Attendance at this week’s CES gadget show in Las Vegas fell more than 75% compared to its previous in-person event two years ago, its organizer said Friday.<\/p>\n

The Consumer Technology<\/a> Association said on the show’s closing day that more than 40,000 people attended the multi-day event on the Las Vegas Strip<\/a>. That’s less than a quarter of the more than 170,000 the CTA said were there for its 2020 convention.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic led the CTA to take 2021’s conference online, but the trade group decided eight months ago to bring a physical CES 2022 back to Vegas. That proved challenging amid a global spike in infections caused by the fast-moving omicron coronavirus variant that emerged late last year.<\/p>\n

Conference attendees were required to wear masks on the exhibition floors that opened Wednesday and show proof of vaccination before they arrived. But the rise in COVID-19 cases led a number of big tech companies to pull out of the conference in the weeks before the event.<\/p>\n