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Hands-On With Rewind’s Eye-Tracking Shooter, ‘Project Falcon’ for FOVE 0

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When the UK-based VR studio, Rewind, asked me if I wanted to come and see a demo of its eye-tracking tech demo for the upcoming FOVE 0 headset, I was intrigued. Project Falcon , as this new demo is called, is an on-rails first-person shooter that uses eye-tracking as an aiming system for noisy machine guns and explosive rockets.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.09.27): Huge leaks on Quest 2 Pro (and Quest 3?), Nreal to launch new glasses, and more!

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Someone leaked on Imgur a screenshot from a call on Facebook Workplace where it is possible to see some Oculus controllers that are completely different from the ones that are on the market today. These depth cameras are used for positional tracking of controllers and the headset. Pepperidge Farm remembers!).

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VEC 2019 – All the most important news from the Vive Ecosystem Conference

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Before officially releasing it, Mr. President has highlighted that the Focus Plus is not just a Vive Focus with two 6 DOF controllers, but it has also a better weight balancing and new improved lenses (I will tell you my impressions on the device in my next post). Every 360 videos on Vive Video will become immersive.

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My predictions for Facebook Connect 2

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Oculus Quest “Light” The Oculus Quest 2 Pro is going to win the heart of all us techies, but what about all the average consumers that don’t care much about full-body VR and passthrough AR and just want to watch 360 videos or play Beat Saber? The big unknowns are two. Horizon Worlds + Workrooms.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.22): Samsung AR glasses leaked, Kura price revealed, and much more!

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The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. I wonder if something similar could be employed for 360 videos…. VR can be used in financial planning.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.25): new rumors on Apple Glasses, Oculus Quest anniversary, HP Reverb G2 and more!

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This means that you can shoot 30FPS videos and then have fluid ones as output! Participate in a VR eye-tracking apps contest! My friends at 7Invensun and HTC have organized a contest to develop VR applications featuring eye tracking. The winners get free hardware and also cash prizes. in Europe). More info.

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Pico Neo 2 Eye review: the new best enterprise standalone headset

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It is a 6DOF standalone headset with inside out positional tracking and magnetically tracked controllers. The word “Eye” stays there to remember us that this headset includes integrated eye-tracking out of the box. There is also a version of the Pico Neo 2 that doesn’t feature eye tracking.