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Meta Mulls AdHawk Buyout for Cameraless Eye Tracking

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Meta Platforms Inc is mulling a potential buyout of AdHawk Microsystems, a virtual reality (VR) eye-tracking technology firm, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing anonymous sources. New story: Meta/Facebook is considering acquiring AdHawk Microsystems, which develops eye-tracking tech for AR/VR that doesn’t require cameras [link].

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Magic Leap’s New AR Headset Is Coming This September

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The company has already teased a suite of new features, including eye-tracking cameras as well as dynamic dimming lenses capable of adjusting the amount of light transmission. Today the company revealed that the Magic Leap 2 will be available this September starting at $3,299.

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Magic Leap 2 Starting Price Positioned Slightly Less Than HoloLens 2, Release Date Set for September

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On September 30th Magic Leap 2 will release first in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Saudi Arabia. 4x Eye-tracking Cameras. The company expects the headset to launch in Japan and Singapore by the end of the year. Magic Leap 2 Specs. AMD GFX10.2: 1SE 1SA 4 WGP (8 CUs) 2RB+. Depth Camera.

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Alleged Apple Trademarks Point to ‘Reality’ Branding for Long-rumored Mixed Reality Headset

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Trademark applications were filed earlier this month in the US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica and Uruguay for three names: Reality One, Reality Pro, and Reality Processor, Bloomberg reports. N301 may pack a dozen cameras for room-scale tracking, hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and passthrough AR.

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Meta Quest Pro Ships Today, Bringing Color Mixed Reality To Standalone VR

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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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Apple’s Vision Pro “Works Like Your Mind” Says Tim Cook, CEO

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Notably, the Vision Pro gives users various options to understand and interact with XR by using eye and hand-based interactions. Cook notes that when using a Vision Pro, an operator can “just look at something” and “select it with your eyes.”

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VR Veteran Studio Behind ‘Bigscreen’ Unveils Thin & Light PC VR Headset ‘Beyond’

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Image courtesy Bigscreen Granted, some things we’d consider ‘nex-gen’ are notably missing from Beyond, such as eye-tracking, face-tracking, optical 6DOF tracking, and the ability to use it wirelessly. We haven’t confirmed pricing for that yet, however we’ll update once we do.