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FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset

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FOVE, the company behind the eponymous eye-tracking VR headset, today announced that they will be showing off a new industrial design at both Comic-Con and SIGGRAPH 2016 where attendees will have a chance to demo the new headset design themselves. Previous FOVE design | See Also: FOVE’s Eye-tracking VR Headset Was the Next Best at CES.

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Valve, SMI and Tobii Preview VR’s Eye Tracking Future In HTC Vive

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Still another example is eye tracking, and we’ve seen demonstrations from both Tobii and SMI in the HTC Vive offering a glimpse of how much better future VR systems will be at understanding our behavior. This is a screen grab from Tobii’s demo showing my eye movements over ten seconds. New Tools For Game Designers.

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SMI Talks Eye Tracking VR Applications & Foveated Rendering

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Sensomotoric Instruments (SMI) is a German-based eye tracking company who has released an eye tracking kit for the Oculus DK2 & Gear VR , and most recently for the HTC Vive. See Also: FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset. Here’s a recent demo of using SMI eye tracking with the HTC Vive.

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

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Stepping into the closed off demo space at Microsoft’s MWC booth, I was greeted by a pretty familiar mock-up of a few tables and some art on the wall to make it feel like a tastefully decorated home office. Both demos had the headset at max brightness, which can be changed via a rocker switch on the left side.

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

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Many of the biggest companies on the planet, from Samsung and HTC, to Facebook, Amazon, and Google, and even all the way to Ford, Mercedez, and countless startups, all gather in the desert at the start of the year to unveil the latest and greatest advancements in consumer electronics. HTC Announces Subscription Plan For Viveport [ Link ].

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. Eye tracking: Fove: Eyefluence: SMI: Bladerunner (film).

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Learn about Headsets

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The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. HTC demands a minimum of an Intel i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 CPU paired with either an AMD R9 290 or a Nvidia gtx 970 graphics card. HTC Vive Pro. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift.

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