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FOVE Eye-tracking Headset Gets Final Specs and Pre-order Date

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FOVE has announced that their first eye-tracking VR headset, the FOVE 0, will open for pre-orders on November 2nd, and has also released the final specifications of the device. Much like Oculus, FOVE began as a successful Kickstarter which raised $480,000 , nearly twice its goal, back in mid-2015. Eye Tracking.

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Pimax Ends VR Headset Kickstarter With Over $4.2M and a Truly Massive Job Ahead

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It was an interesting idea, but it wasn’t until the first set of stretch goals were announced that we learned Pimax intended on actually offering a selection of these extendable modules to backers, some of them for free of course as a hearty thank-you for being an early adopter. eye-tracking module. image courtesy Pimax.

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

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In the 30-odd minutes wearing HoloLens 2 over the course of two demos, it seemed to be a comfortable fit that could probably be worn for the advertised two to three hour active-use battery life without issue. Eye-tracking & Voice Input. Image courtesy Microsoft. Image courtesy Microsoft.

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‘Esper’, ‘Gang Beasts’ Dev Coatsink Going All-In On VR, Working On Three New Games

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There are of course a variety of standalone VR headsets and other contenders coming like the eye-tracking FOVE , which these games could just as easily be suited for. There’s also PS VR’s Aim controller , which is currently only confirmed to support upcoming exclusive, Farpoint.

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Here’s How 4 Predictions By The Head of Oculus Research Turned Out

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Prediction: Eye-tracking will play a big part in the future of VR. What he said: “Eye tracking will almost certainly be a part of the future of VR. Essentially it refers to using eye-tracking to pinpoint where a user is looking on a display and then only fully rendering the area the retina is focusing on.

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

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Eye-tracking—the ability to quickly and precisely measure the direction a user is looking while inside of a VR headset—is often talked about within the context of foveated rendering, with the hopes that it could reduce the performance requirements of VR. 7invensun is selling the aGlass eye-tracking development kit for Vive headsets.

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CES 2017 VR And AR News Roundup: Everything You Might Have Missed

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For the full scoop, you’ll have to click through to the specific story of course because we don’t want this article ballooning to several thousand words that you may not care about. Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0 Costs $599, Starts Shipping January 2017 [ Link ].

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