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A Work in Progress: Virtual Reality

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On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Virtual reality has taken the world by storm. So, let’s look at the facts, the numbers and the data. The Market. At least not yet.

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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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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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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. Samsung VR is now somewhat similar to the App Store or Google Play store in that it’s where you can find the latest content for virtual reality products.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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As the virtual reality medium is physically more immersive than traditional video games, the potential for this real world overlap is significantly higher. A psychologist well-versed in GTP has turned her research to virtual reality and its effects on consciousness – starting with dreams. …and more.

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Privacy in VR Is Complicated and It’ll Take the Entire VR Community to Figure It Out

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He works at FOVE which is making a VR headset with eye-tracking, but wanted to speak to me on his own behalf about some of the deeper philosophical questions and conceptual frameworks around the types of intimate data that will become available to VR headsets. What type of transparency and controls should users expect from companies?

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Korean Patent Shows Samsung Gear VR with Positional, Face and Eye Tracking

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The Samsung Gear VR is one of the most successful virtual reality headsets of all time when it comes to pure numbers. A series of LED lights placed on the headset would be picked up by an external camera and that information would be translated into positional data inside the headset itself.