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Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye TribeThe direction.

AllThingsVR

Oculus confirms to me that this is an official acquisition.The startup has developed a $99 eye tracking device developer kits for computers, and software that can bring gaze-based interfaces to smartphones and potentially virtual reality headsets. Read more here.

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

Road to VR

Companies like Tobii are offering eye-tracking hardware and software to manufacturers and developers; Qualcomm is now offering Tobii’s solution in their VRDK headset. Fove is selling a development kit of their VR headset with inbuilt eye-tracking. The hardware is becoming increasingly available to developers and researchers.

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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.