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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. FOVE 0 Specifications.

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How Eye Tracking is Driving the Next Generation of AR and VR

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Despite all the activity, AR/VR hardware remains relatively crude. In January of 2017, FOVE, a Japanese VR startup, released the first eye-tracking VR headset. UBI Research expects total shipments to exceed 65 million units by 2021 and International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts a five-year compound annual growth rate of 108.3%

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90% of Chinese VR Startups Have Gone Bankrupt. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.

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Research about this rapid decline was conducted and issued by iiMedia Research, a third-party data collector and analyst of technological digital platforms. With notable exceptions, these are often companies producing cheap replicas of existing mobile hardware like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear without any additional, unique features.

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A Work in Progress: Virtual Reality

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So, let’s look at the facts, the numbers and the data. Manufacturers are holding sales numbers close to their chest, and there isn’t much to ascertain from consumer data. Here’s some market data that does exist, all of which is relevant to 2016: According to Develop , 80% of consumers are unaware of VR.

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Emteq Aims to Humanize VR by Capturing Your Facial Expressions

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Although this technology has clear applications for gaming and social VR apps such as vTime and the upcoming Facebook VR platform, the founders also plan to use the recorded data to analyse how audiences react to regular films and TV advertising. See Also: FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset.

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SMI Talks Eye Tracking VR Applications & Foveated Rendering

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It’s really an imperceptible difference that would allow mobile technologies to render higher resolution scenes, or potentially help make it more feasible to wirelessly transfer data to a desktop VR HMD. See Also: FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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RAZER: ZVENTURES VC FUND – Starting as a hardware company and evolving into a software company as well, Razer is now also growing into an investing company. Announcing zVentures , a $30M venture capital fund, Razer will be strategically funding companies in the ioT, big data analytics, AR/VR, robotics, and Android gaming areas.

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