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Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye TribeThe direction.

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In the meantime, an eye-tracking VR headset startup called Fove has raised $11 million, while SensoMotoric Instruments has brought eye-tracking to avatars in Altspace’s social VR construct. This year The Eye Tribe unveiled a $199 pro version of its tracking device that it says can be as much as 10X cheaper than comparable models.

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Hands-on: HoloLens 2 is a More Than Just a Larger Field of View

Road to VR

I actually got the chance to run through two HoloLens demos back-to-back; one in the home office, and another in a much brighter space with more direct lighting dedicated to showcasing a patently enterprise-focused demo built by Bentley , a company that deals in construction and infrastructure solutions. Image courtesy Microsoft.

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Eye-tracking is a Game Changer for VR That Goes Far Beyond Foveated Rendering

Road to VR

Fove is selling a development kit of their VR headset with inbuilt eye-tracking. SEE ALSO Abrash Spent Most of His F8 Keynote Convincing the Audience That 'Reality' is Constructed in the Brain. 7invensun is selling the aGlass eye-tracking development kit for Vive headsets.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

It had integrated, high quality headphones ( supported by a custom inline DAC and amp ), lightweight construction, and rear-mounted ‘Constellation’ infra-red LEDs for 360 degrees of positional tracking with a single camera sensor.