Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2018

SEE ALSO Magic Leap Shows Prototype Headset Progress Since 2014. Magic Leap says the headset itself boasts a “spatial interface [with] multiple input modes including voice, gesture, head pose and eye tracking.”

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JULY 3, 2023

Luckey was the public face of Oculus until 2017 when he was fired by Facebook, the company he sold Oculus to for over $2 billion in 2014. Did you even know that Quest Pro had eye tracking?" Quest Pro came out like, "Hey, we have eye tracking, we have face tracking. Luckey asked Diamandis.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2018

SEE ALSO Magic Leap Shows Prototype Headset Progress Since 2014. One would hope that the livestream might offer some insight into at least a few of these elements, but the company does have a bad habit of spending a lot of time to say very little.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2019

Do you know for instance that I have tried the Vive Pro Eye ? It is based in Taipei since 2014 and its purpose is letting people create high-quality content in a fast and effective way. The Vive Pro Eye is the latest enterprise product by HTC, that is a Vive Pro with embedded the eye tracking by Tobii.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Synapse creatively uses PSVR 2 eye tracking for a promising roguelike shooter. We felt like VR had been going upwards but relatively slowly since 2014-2015 and we really felt it taking off with Quest 2 ," says O’Luanaigh. Going hands-on with a preview build, we interviewed nDreams to learn more.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

At the start of his talk, however, he also mentioned that he’d made some predictions back at the first Oculus Connect in 2014, which had largely come true. Prediction: Eye-tracking will play a big part in the future of VR. What he said: “Eye tracking will almost certainly be a part of the future of VR.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

The job descriptions first showed up across the internet and that started the rumors, I’m going to say back in 2014, 2015.” In fact, Apple is adamant about the Pro not having or needing controllers but getting along with eye and hand tracking as its only inputs.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2019

The company was seeking candidates with relevant experience at least as far back as 2014 , and has been actively building up AR functionality in its iOS products. SEE ALSO Apple's Latest VR Patent Describes a Compact VR Headset with Eye Tracking.

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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2016

I’ve spoken to Philip at SVVR 2014 & 2015 , and I had a chance to catch up with him again at SVVR 2016, where High Fidelity announced beta access to their Sandbox client.

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2019

Jason Rubin has been a key spokesman for Oculus since he joined the company in 2014. In May of 2018, Facebook teased the Rift ‘Half Dome’ prototype which included eye-tracking, a varifocal display, and a 140 degree field of view. Rift S | Image courtesy Oculus.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Since the Oculus purchase in 2014, the firm has released numerous headsets, most notably the Quest range, which now includes mixed and virtual reality products. As headsets become more sophisticated, the devices record increasing user data, from hand tracking, eye tracking, environment scanning and more.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Instead a ‘look-and-tap’ system relying on eye and hand-tracking is the core input method, and by all accounts ( including mine ) it works very well. The headset has some wholly unique capabilities not seen on other consumer VR headsets, like eye-tracking, head-haptics, and adaptive triggers.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Fove has created an eye-tracking headset, which other headset manufacturers may seek to include in future iterations.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

To prove his claims, he put on the tale the sales numbers of the Oculus devkits: “The original DK1, released in 2013 sold 70,000 units while the follow-up DK2 from 2014 sold 150,000”, he said. Some claimed it will be wireless, others claimed it will be wireless, with eye-tracking, high resolution, 200° FOV, and other cool stuff… all for $250.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 14, 2016

After launching Ultra family in 2014, and the UltraLite Family in early 2015 – Lattice just announced a new member of the iCE40 FPGA family. This also enables new ways of interaction with your mobile product in the future, such as eye tracking and more. ICE40 Ultra Plus delivers eight times more memory (1.1

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As you can see below, it’s set to be a substantial upgrade over the original PSVR, which was first unveiled in 2014 as Project Morpheus and later released as PSVR in 2016. PSVR 2 Sense controllers (rechargable), eye-tracking. Sony first shared PSVR 2’s specs back in January. Inside-out (no external beacons).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

More info (Oculus Quest runtime v12 features) More info (Oculus Quest hands tracking update) More info (How to enable hands tracking on Quest) More info (List of Quest apps supporting hands tracking) More info (Hands tracking having issues with tattooed hands). Other relevant news. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

With full-body tracking, it would be possible to do Thai-boxing, for instance, enabling new ways of staying fit, and also new ways to break the windows in your home while you are playing VR. We are not supporting eye tracking or biometrics for this closed beta. And now, 8 years later, just a mobile headset could do all of this.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. The following year at CES 2014, Oculus had to share the immersive technology limelight with a slew of new startups who had appeared in the wake of Oculus’ success. The Oculus Rift Crystal Cove prototype VR headset and tracking camera a shown at CES 2014.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

We had full-body room-scale VR in 2014 , we were so cool. There are hands tracking and eye tracking , but they are almost never exploited. It has better FOV, better computational power, better environment understanding than HoloLens, and it also has acontroller, hands tracking and eye tracking.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2018

Optional accessories such as inside-out tracking modules, hand-tracking modules, and even optional eye tracking. AntVR has come a long way since it launched their first Kickstarter back in May 2014, which garnered over $260,000 to realize what at the time was positioned as a competitor to the Oculus Rift DK2.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. The eye tracking cameras sense the positions of your pupils and tiny piezoelectric actuators move the lenses into place. And I mean fully. This basic idea isn’t new.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Facebook says that Beat Games will remain independent and the game will remain the same, but these are the same words that I’ve heard when in 2014 it acquired Oculus, and we all know how the story ended (and in fact, the popular Damo9000 ironized about it).

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

Eye tracking is off by default for privacy reasons, but if you enable it you can open a Fit Adjustment guide that measures your IPD and tells you to adjust the lenses to this value. I tried purposely setting my IPD wrong while eye tracking was activated and the guide often doesn’t appear.

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JANUARY 14, 2017

We’ve been investing in it since 2014. We got into AR seriously in 2014. With hand tracking and eye tracking built into the headset, I can be playing with my friends across the world. They’ve stopped playing with toys, because it’s such a compelling medium. It’s my job to re-engage them and go from there.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. The other thing that they’ve got coming is eye tracking for their VIVE. Alan: Today’s guest is a good friend of mine, Bob Fine.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. The other thing that they’ve got coming is eye tracking for their VIVE. Alan: Today’s guest is a good friend of mine, Bob Fine.

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MAY 4, 2017

Patents filed in 2013-2014 explore a variety of exotic optical designs, functional on paper, but with specifications outside the tolerances of existing manufacturing methods. In April of last year Abovitz landed himself on the cover of Wired magazine with what was dubbed the Magic Leap “photonic chip.”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched -- what I love -- VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. The other thing that they've got coming is eye tracking for their VIVE. Alan: Today's guest is a good friend of mine, Bob Fine.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

I really hope to have heard this before starting my entrepreneurial adventure in 2014. When I needed a Vive OG last year to play around with eye tracking , I bought a used one. Make sure you start from a place of stability , so that you can put in and stand the ups and the downs. Suzanne Borders.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

We’ve been creating VR experiences now for probably nearer to three years with the production company, starting back in 2014, but we started obviously with 360 video doing things for Thomson Holidays — you experience what it’s like to be on a cruise ship, or be on a plane. It tracks your eye.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

We’ve been creating VR experiences now for probably nearer to three years with the production company, starting back in 2014, but we started obviously with 360 video doing things for Thomson Holidays — you experience what it’s like to be on a cruise ship, or be on a plane. It tracks your eye.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

We've been creating VR experiences now for probably nearer to three years with the production company, starting back in 2014, but we started obviously with 360 video doing things for Thomson Holidays -- you experience what it's like to be on a cruise ship, or be on a plane. Vive Eye Pro, can't remember what they call it, but--.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

OpenBCI has been making open-source tools for neuroscience and biosensing since 2014. The Galea hardware is designed to be integrated into existing HMDs and is the first device that simultaneously collects data from the wearer’s brain, eyes, heart, skin, and muscles. Hello Conor, can you introduce yourself and OpenBCI?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. So we use, behind the scenes, everything from head position, eye tracking, looking at the difference between where they’re holding a VR controller to where they may end up, as a measure of kind of intuition.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. So we use, behind the scenes, everything from head position, eye tracking, looking at the difference between where they’re holding a VR controller to where they may end up, as a measure of kind of intuition.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You've been doing this a while longer than myself, but I've been in early VR since 2014. So we use, behind the scenes, everything from head position, eye tracking, looking at the difference between where they're holding a VR controller to where they may end up, as a measure of kind of intuition.

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