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MAY 11, 2020

The deal is also available through online retailers such as Scan, Overclockers, Curry’s PC World, Ebuyer, Box.co.uk, and Amazon. First launched back in 2018, Vive Pro is now being discontinued in favor of the newer Vive Pro Eye, a version of the headset with integrated Tobii eye-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

During the Chinese counterpart of the event, the V2EC, Vive has also announced two other interesting pieces of news: The 7Invensun Droolon F2, an eye-tracking add-on for the Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, coming soon for $299. PSVR2 may feature 4K display and eye tracking. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

Amazon Technologies Inc. Of the many granted, here’s a few of the most interesting AR/VR patents we’ve found: Beamsplitter assembly for eye tracking in head-mounted displays. Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC. Intel Corp. LG Electronics Inc. Ford Global Technologies LLC. Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. Facebook Inc.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Quest Pro has eye tracking and face tracking , so your real-time gaze and facial expression are mapped to your avatar. A total of five internal cameras are present: one for each eye, one for your upper face, and two for your lower face.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2023

The biggest update is the introduction of “3DOF Tracking” XREAL Air are 3DOF glasses, so they have rotational tracking, but when used in Air Casting mode, they were just projecting the screen of your smartphone in front of your eyes. Tracking was 0DOF.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s now 2024, and both Meta and Amazon are members of the Vision Council, a group whose members "produce 90 percent of the prescription lenses worn in the U.S.". I watched as the green outlines inside Apple Vision Pro adjusted to my eyes and set up eye tracking. I've lost so much time to smudges, though.

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MARCH 4, 2024

According to reports, the upcoming Samsung XR headset will feature a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a Time of Flight (ToF) sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking. At the event, AWS collaborated with Proto Holograms to showcase a new system powered by Amazon Bedrock.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

But it’s still reasonably impressive: Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Resolution 1832×1920 per eye RAM 12GB Storage 256GB Battery 2-3 hours Weight 1.59 The Meta Quest Pro has numerous optional accessories from Amazon, the Meta online store, and other vendors. You also get 12GB of RAM and up to 256GB of storage.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Pico 5 Pro Max looks like a dream hybrid headset : it is a standalone device with eye tracking and passthrough, and it also has the DisplayPort connection that makes it work like a true tethered headset when connected to a PC. Aero is not so small as BigScreen Beyond, but it features a higher resolution and supports eye tracking.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Eye & Face Tracking. As previously announced, the Quest Pro features eye tracking and Natural Facial Expressions, which has allowed the company to do some pretty cool things with avatars. via the Meta Store in 22 countries as well as Best Buy and Amazon in the US. Credit: Meta. Credit: Bob Minkin for Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The OLED display looks great, we've seen great uses for eye-tracking, while adaptive triggers and haptic feedback support take immersion a step further. However, features like eye-tracking support, OLED panels, and affordable pricing compared to dedicated PC VR headsets put it in an advantageous position.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Optic ID Iris-based biometric authentication OS VisionOS Audio Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking, a 6-mic array with directional beamforming Battery 2 hours of general use or 2.5 and Wi-Fi 6 Input Hands, eyes, voice, keyboards, trackpads, and game controllers IPD 51-75mm Weight 21.2-22.9 Plus, the eye tracking is insanely good.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Mallinson spoke about ‘natural language understanding’, which he compared to voice operated platforms like Apple’s Siri, Amazon Echo. Building on that, the company’s also interested in affecting the virtual world around you with gaze tracking. Mallinson isn’t ruling out hardware upgrades though.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Multiple tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple , and others have trimmed their expenses due to recession woes and slower-than-expected sales. This has included the Meta Quest Pro, hand and eye tracking, and a Meta Quest Gaming Showcase in the spring this year.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2018

Freelance writer Joshua Fruhlinger, who occasionally writes for Digital Trends , used third-party Amazon sales data to back up his claim that consumers don’t care about VR anymore, saying it’s “crystal clear.” The report also specifies Gear VR’s decline in sales performance on Amazon.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo and the global voice and speech recognition market size is estimated to reach USD 31.82 Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo Click To Tweet. billion by 2025. 1 – Intuitive UX.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. Learn more Read “Storytelling in Mixed Reality” Clyde De Souza has just published a book called “Storytelling in Mixed Reality” , which is available on Amazon. Hope you enjoy!

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JUNE 7, 2023

For instance, headsets like the new Apple Vision Pro allow users to interact more effectively using eye-tracking sensors with a scalable content interface. Amazon: Amazon is also highly invested in spatial systems. Amazon also utilizes spatial tools for drone deliveries powered by AI and IoT.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s relevant that the device wouldn’t feature any kind of face and eye tracking, but would have RGB passthrough and a depth sensor, so that to be able to offer detailed mixed reality and high-precision environment understanding. The device is available on Amazon for $379. Nreal Air is now on sale in the US.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

The headset has some wholly unique capabilities not seen on other consumer VR headsets, like eye-tracking, head-haptics, and adaptive triggers. Signals from Amazon suggest Quest 2 may have outsold Quest 3 nearly 3:1, if not more.

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

Pico Neo 3 Pro, and its sibling Pico Neo 3 Pro Eye (featuring eye-tracking), are the latest enterprise headsets by Pico. Pico Neo 3 Pro is an enterprise headset, so you can’t buy it on Amazon, but you have to contact Pico so that to buy it from one of its sales agents. Pico Neo 3 Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses. Amazon has just announced that it is going to release Amazon Echo Frames, the first official smartglasses by the e-commerce giant. It seems that also the Pimax 5K+ in some conditions can now run at 120Hz. I really hope that this will happen soon!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The leaks about Pico 4 all talked about two models: Pico 4 and Pico 4 Pro, with the Pro featuring eye tracking and face tracking to compete with Quest Pro. Pre-orders will open to the general public in October via Amazon, Mediamarkt, Saturn, Elkjop, The Very Group, and Coolblue. All the accessories (Fitness Tracker, etc.)

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Many of the biggest companies on the planet, from Samsung and HTC, to Facebook, Amazon, and Google, and even all the way to Ford, Mercedez, and countless startups, all gather in the desert at the start of the year to unveil the latest and greatest advancements in consumer electronics.

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JUNE 18, 2019

The breakfast tech panel discussed everything from eye-tracking in VR and biosensor or haptic inputs to predictive analytics within AR applications. — the EON Reality team also had the privilege of chairing a panel that included Ed Andersen, KPMG’s Head of Development in Manchester.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The super-interesting eye tracking device Droolon F1 by 7Invensun is now in preorder on Taobao , with Amazon listing coming soon. I can’t wait to use this device, that for only $150 can give eye tracking functionalities to all Vive headsets (including Focus). Droolon F1 is now on sale in China.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

You should be able to buy it through Amazon, Target, Walmart, and Best Buy in the US. Alternatively, you can try Amazon, Argos, and Curry’s in the UK. Notably, while the Quest 3 does feature hand tracking , it doesn’t offer eye tracking.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Qualcomm XR2 chipset 4K low-persistence 90 Hz Curved Display 3664 x 1920 resolution, 773 PPI 98° FOV 6GB RAM (2133 Mhz) for the Pro model, 8GB for the Pro Eye Model 256GB storage Wi-Fi 6 connectivity USB-C 3.0 Pico Neo 3 Pro costs €600 and Pico Neo 3 Pro Eye (which features Tobii eye tracking) costs €750.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2018

What controls will be made available for users to opt-out of being tracked? What will be the safeguards in place to prevent the use of eye tracking cameras to personally identify people with biometric retina or iris scans? Are any of our voice conversations are being recorded for social VR interactions?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). Thanks to a flash sale, that put it at the ridiculous price of $150, the Go has sold more than all other devices, and has even been #3 most sold device on all Amazon videogames category.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. A big wave of negative comments, memes, threatens of class actions, people canceling their orders of Oculus headsets, people explaining why this is so bad for us all has started.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Eye & Face Tracking. As previously mentioned, the Meta Quest Pro features eye tracking and face tracking, bringing a new level of expression to the metaverse. ’ You’ll then have the option to enable Natural Facial Expressions and calibrate eye tracking.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The company’s training platform includes partners across multiple devices, including Meta Quest, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, SAP, NIIT, and Amazon, among others. XR Today: Which functions do you consider essential when developing and deploying your VR training platform?

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