Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg maintains that Qualcomm will unveil the new SoC, reportedly dubbed the Snapdragon XR1, at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) in Santa Clara, California, which takes place May 30th – June 1st. image courtesy Qualcomm.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2024

Last year, Apple personally selected ARway to participate in its Vision Pro Developer Labs in Cupertino, California, to build a version of its application on the upcoming device, which is due next week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 4, 2022

The prototyped device enables users to see AR visualisations and navigate spatial user interfaces (UI) with built-in eye-tracking. Mojo Vision’s product employs a custom-made accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer to power the device’s eye-tracking features for spatial navigation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The news comes after the San Mateo, California-based firm offered a toolkit upgrade for Meta Quest enthusiasts, providing them with MR experiences for the Quest 2’s passthrough capabilities at the time. Additional UX enhancements include streamlined, low-latency performance for optimal, real-time experiences. Her comments come.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Inward-facing cameras for enhanced hand, face, and eye-tracking. The headset currently retails for £1,499 and offers a trove of upgraded features compared to the Quest 2 for enhanced productivity, avatar building, hand and eye-tracking, and cross-compatible integrations. TruTouch haptics to interact with virtual content.

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VRScout

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. The Touch Pro controllers will be available for purchase later this year for $299. Credit: Meta.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

We went hands on with Apple Vision Pro at Apple Park in California during WWDC23 and were blown away by the best headset demo ever made. 0:00 / 1× I left my Vision Pro demo convinced that eye-tracked pinches will indeed be the mouse click of AR and VR. It just felt so good to see Apple gets this so right. That's it.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Alongside a set of 4K LCD displays, this headset also includes eye-tracking and positional tracking software and can work with a range of software solutions, including Unity, Unreal, and other game engine plugins. → Explore VRgineers

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

Over the last year, VR headsets are gaining reaction thanks to many technological innovations, such as hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and wireless streaming, which benefit business and consumer end-users. VITURE also debuted a new device at CES 2022.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this Episode 30 of the VRScout Report, we talk all things Oculus Connect 3 (OC3), getting insights and takeaways from: Max Cohen, VP of Mobile at Oculus; Raj Rao of uSens; Ela Darling of Cam4; Tahdg Kelly of VReal; and Ashley Pinnick of California Rex.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Point Reyes” is a beach in California, so it is just an internal codename at Oculu… ehm Facebook, following what it has always been its tradition for new unannounced headsets. Facebook wants to use some AI magic to eliminate all what you don’t want to hear and let you hear only what you are interested in.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

The use of eye, hand, and voice interactions make the interface with the headset natural and easy to be learned. The genius part has been mixing eye tracking with hand micro-gestures. We have not seen much about this headset, but the basic interactions seem made the right way.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

For this project, codenamed Steno, they partnered with the University of California San Francisco’s Chang Lab, who performed some experiments implanting electrodes into the brain of patients to let them type sentences just by thinking about them. Long story short, nothing worked as they expected.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

This will be a newsletter written on the road: I’ve prepared the material in Italy, I’m currently writing these words from the Frankfurt airport (Germany), I will keep writing on the plane across the ocean and I will finalize everything in Sunnyvale (California, USA). There is no face or eye tracking. So let’s dig into them.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The San Diego, California-based enterprise’s latest solution aims to provide smart glass manufacturers with a class-leading, micro form factor series of interlinked components. Amon Comments on Hand and Eye Tracking Tools. Gbps of peak speed. The new AI unit is set to deliver over 2.5

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

neural dust, Image courtesy University of California, Berkeley. Now AR/VR headsets have near perfect eye-tracking, on-board AI that does object recognition and convincingly speaks to you like a personal assistant. The headset has an eye-tracking based UI that sometimes feels like magic.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 20, 2022

Speaking to reporters from a room decorated with decals of California, Montana, and Hawaii (all states where he owns homes), Zuckerberg led a show-and-tell of Meta's VR research and prototyping. And it wasn't mentioned that Holocake 2 could support varifocal and eye-tracking. Credit: Meta/ Reality Labs.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The timer started again with a 24-hour countdown to the second location: revealed to be in Big Sur State Park in California. Founded in 2011, Tobii’s eye-tracking products have been used by huge companies in the gaming space (Acer has launched several monitors incorporating the tech) to determine where users are looking on screens.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

“And so, I got out to California and I thought, I’ll just go join the local virtual reality meetup, because I had been going to tech meetups in New York, and I just assumed that was a thing in Silicon Valley; it’s Silicon Valley, of course they have that.” He knows what’s up,” said Krantz. I’m very envious of that.”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Hello everyone from Sunnyvale, California! It should run on top of an M2 chipset, which is much more powerful than the processing unit of the Quest 2, 4K displays per eye with strong HDR (a rumor talks about a 5000-nits display, about which many are lost in the optical path), a quite nice FOV.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

I should also give another example. And this is a really important point: if AR lives separately from the existing ways that you collaborate not in AR, there will be a wall of friction that will prevent organizations or enterprises from wanting to adopt it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

I should also give another example. And this is a really important point: if AR lives separately from the existing ways that you collaborate not in AR, there will be a wall of friction that will prevent organizations or enterprises from wanting to adopt it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

I should also give another example. And this is a really important point: if AR lives separately from the existing ways that you collaborate not in AR, there will be a wall of friction that will prevent organizations or enterprises from wanting to adopt it.

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