1) Will the non-sports camera markets continue the strong growth? These markets are drones, home security, auto aftermarket, and wearable cameras.
What are our other possible futures and markets?
Wearable makes me think of Police, but is there a wearable military application that might grow. My company makes night vision cameras for the military, but I don’t know if Ambarella products would apply. Not sure I have the contacts to research that.
Drones make me think home and professional, but does Amba supply the big boys the military uses? Is that an advantage to the power savings? Does the military need even more powerful cameras than Amba can supply?
What about commercial security? Smaller, easier to hid surveillance cameras? I do think home security will grow, even I have been considering some Home Security “2.0” system like Canary, SimpliSafe, etc. Costco sells surveillance systems.
Gaming? The Occulus is getting us into virtual reality, I can’t think of a need for a camera with that, but might games somehow start integrating cameras? HD “tag”, kids run around with a “head-cam” and you have to find them by the footage you are receiving. Ok, dumb, but some stupid game will pop up that we can’t think of.
Pro Sports beyond GoPro will we start embedding small but high quality cameras in sports more? The orange pylones in football have cameras, I think home plates do now. what else might be coming?
Mass environmental studies where the camera sends footage back over cell (Side note, in the deep jungle of some African country, the have cheap cell phone in trees (powered by solar) that send back audio for processing. They can pick up the sounds of illegal logging and triangulate on the location to find the bad guys - what next with cameras?)
Video conferencing is becoming cheap and ubiquitous, TVs will have cameras so the NSA and Chinese hackers can spy on you! But also so you can have a 4K VTC between grammy and Timmy. Lots of very cheap competition there.
Robot army of the apocalypse coming to get us? Don’t you want your roomba to live stream so you can see it clean your house
Some of these might be just different uses of GoPro or Drone technology, but they might be future markets at the same time.