Major companies like Samsung and Intel are showing off their technology, including self-driving cars, virtual-reality viewing stations and super-fast video streaming.
At the helm of it all is 5G, the wireless network technology that mobile carriers around the world have been racing to adopt.
Pyeongchang, a previously little known city of just 44,000 people, has emerged as a vital testing ground. Intel (INTC) and South Korean mobile carrier KT (KT) are using it as the tech industry's largest 5G showcase yet.
Smartphone users have been "promised a lot of things previously for 5G," said Peter Liu, a Singapore-based analyst at research firm Gartner. "We want to see how much can be really achieved in the commercial environment."
Intel is hoping to dazzle fans with the technology by offering new ways of watching Olympic athletes. It's set up 5G stations to track cross-country skiers, deployed dozens of cameras inside an ice arena, and made this the first Winter Olympics to be broadcast live in virtual reality.
"We're getting closer and closer to the athletes," said Rob Topol, general manager of Intel's 5G business. "Viewers can control the time, target, even the angle of what they're viewing."
Source: cnn
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