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VRWorld: Our Most Popular Stories of 2017

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9: Could Varjo’s Human Eye Technology be a Breakthrough for VR? In this piece, we took a deep look into “ foveated eye tracking ” and what it means in terms of technology being developed by Finnish VR startup, Varjo. This piece looked at The Rift, a major AR/VR theme park which opened last year in Malaysia. #5:

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Bytedance announces Pico 4 for just €429, with accessories and BIG developer incentives!

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Just Dance VR is also part of a big focus on Fitness by Pico , with Pico Fitness already being part of the runtime and tracking the calories you burn while using the headset (clearly inspired by Oculus Move) and sharing them to Apple Health (like Oculus Move). Pico 4 Pro used for fitness (Image by Pico).

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All you need to know about the leaked Valve VR headset: is Half-Life 3/2 coming?

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If it has to be cheap to compete with Oculus, I guess that audio will be normal… Eye Tracking. There are no signs of eye tracking in this headset. But someone spotted a patent by Valve where eye tracking sensors were hidden inside the lens tubes themselves and so are not visible. Two chips visible).