Road to VR

MARCH 10, 2017

At GDC this year, SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) showed a couple of new eye tracking demos at Valve’s booth. They added eye tracking to avatars in the social VR experiences of Pluto VR and Rec Room , which provided an amazing boost to the social presence within these experience. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2017

The eye tracking company Tobii had some VR demos that they were showing on the GDC Expo Hall floor as well as within Valve’s booth. They were primarily focusing on the new user interaction paradigms that are made available by using eye gazing to select specific objects, direct action, but also locomotion determined by eye gaze.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

This short but ingenious video snippet from eye-tracking specialists Tobii was built to tease a social VR demo they’ve been working on for GDC next week. It aptly highlights the subtle yet striking enhancements that eye tracking may being to social VR applications.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Hand and eye tracking are crucial, integral tools to create the most authentic extended reality (XR) experiences. Tobii has remained at the forefront of these solutions, recognising that eye-tracking tools pilot the world’s top immersive experiences. The only way to accomplish this is through eye tracking.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

With its eye-tracking solution already on the market, Tobii could be a big player in VR going forward. This money will help the company keep up with the rate at which eye-tracking is expected to advance in the coming years. Today, the company announced investment plans that it hopes will make that happen.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. All VR interfaces will change with the introduction of eye tracking, becoming more intuitive. Let’s talk a bit about eye tracking. Hello 7Invensun! Hello Tony!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 6, 2017

Dinosaur kicking for $300 is certainly funny, but it’s also a great example of a broad effort by developers and hardware manufacturers to make virtual worlds more responsive to human behavior. A look inside a headset with eye tracking from Tobii. My aim was so-so on the first few throws, but that was without eye-tracking.

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Next Reality AR

JULY 30, 2018

By comparison, the demo is much more basic than the other published examples. But despite its simplicity, the lesson does underscore the Magic Leap One's capabilities with regard to hand gestures, eye tracking, and.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

An simplified example of a catadioptric optical system | Image courtesy HHahn ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ). The latter likely being used for eye-tracking applications like foveated rendering. – – — – – While Apple is clearly interested in AR and VR, the company has no shortage of patents for technologies which it has never used.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Not only is the headset a huge leap in terms of power, visuals and display technology, but it also includes in-headset haptics and eye tracking capabilities as well. .” For those who are making the jump between the original PSVR and PSVR 2, a bunch of new features await them.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

This Tuesday, Nreal unveiled a hand-tracking update to its augmented reality (AR) software development kit (SDK) for the Chinese company’s lineup of smart glasses, including new controller support and eye tracking options. AI+AR = our new Hand Tracking API. Eye tracking. Nreal (@Nreal) August 16, 2022.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 27, 2017

Now new rumors surrounding the company suggest it’s also looking into one of VR’s most requested features – eye-tracking. SMI offers a range of different eye-tracking solutions, having worked on the concept since the early 90’s.

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VRScout

JUNE 2, 2021

For example, Kellogg’s turned to VR and eye-tracking to put themselves in the shoes of consumers in an effort to develop new ways to better market their Pop-Tart Bites. Beyond the obvious use-cases of gaming, socialVR, workforce training, and education, VR can also be used to collect deep marketing data in new and exicting ways.

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AllThingsVR

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye Tribe The direction you look could one day control your VR or mobile experience thanks to Facebook and Oculus’ latest buy, The Eye Tribe. The company says the ITU Gaze Tracker they helped create has become the most popular open source eye tracking software.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

When the UK-based VR studio, Rewind, asked me if I wanted to come and see a demo of its eye-tracking tech demo for the upcoming FOVE 0 headset, I was intrigued. Project Falcon , as this new demo is called, is an on-rails first-person shooter that uses eye-tracking as an aiming system for noisy machine guns and explosive rockets.

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VRScout

JUNE 6, 2019

Professional-grade VR eye-tracking for $1,599. HTC announced today their Vive Pro Eye VR headset is now available for purchase in North America through Vive.com and select retailers. tracking with the inclusion of precision eye-tracking functionality, opening up a new realm of possibilities for enterprise VR.

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Road to VR

JULY 26, 2023

For example, in flight simulation  use cases, you can display a virtual flight scenario outside the cockpit, while simultaneously showing the real-life cockpit and the physical controls to the user. Hand Tracking and Eye Tracking Hand tracking  allows you to interact in virtual and mixed reality environments without separate controllers.

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Peter Graham

JULY 26, 2019

With this in mind, Zerolight continually looks to optimise the software via the use of eye-tracking and heatmaps. Using a headset like the HTC Vive Eye, Zerolight can monitor where a customer is looking, what draws their attention and how long they may look at specific areas.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But if problems with hand tracking are more acceptable, because we are used to having failures in using our hands even in the real world (e.g. I have experimented with this myself in all my tests with eye tracking: if I’m looking at an object and the system does not highlight it, what am I supposed to do?

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Road to VR

AUGUST 4, 2021

The next-gen PSVR is said to include: 4.1MP (2,000 × 2,040) per-eye resolution OLED. Eye-tracking capable of foveated rendering. Inside-out tracking. It sounds similar to Oculus’ fixed foveated rendering (FFR) technique, which automatically adjusts the level of eye texture foveation based on GPU utilization.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

As people flock online during quarantine we now find ourselves experimenting with new platforms, pushing immersive technologies to the limits, and collaborating in new ways; from eye-tracking technology and facial tracking to biometrics and brain-control interfaces. Eye-Tracking .

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ARPost

MAY 11, 2021

The company hasn’t always worked with Pico’s VR headsets that use Tobii eye-tracking technology. Originally, the company custom made VR headsets and eye-tracking software, as well as their in-house algorithms. “The current body of literature is limited to how we assess as human beings.”. Working With Pico’s VR Headset.

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ARPost

APRIL 10, 2023

Twinmotion Programs Come to Varjo Devices The virtual production of Turandot is a highly artistic example of using Varjo for architecture and design. The partnership’s goal is the development of “neos ” – a proposed device that would use eye-tracking technology for earlier diagnosis of brain disorders.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 24, 2023

The highly anticipated shooter from First Contact Entertainment uses key new PSVR 2 features like eye tracking toward the goal of developing a more refined tactical game than its 2018 predecessor, Firewall Zero Hour. Firewall Ultra is out now exclusively for PlayStation VR2 headsets.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2024

It introduces new features never before shipped, and its visionOS fuses eye tracking and hand tracking for intuitive input with a unique take on the spectrum of immersion. For example, when watching 24 FPS movies the screen will run at 96 Hz, showing each movie frame for three display frames. hours (video) 1.5-2.5

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VRScout

JUNE 24, 2021

The company says that a larger surface area would allow them to implement additional features, such as face and eye tracking. The brim of a baseball cap, for example, could include key subsystems that would be impossible to implement on current AR eyewear, such as face, eye, and body tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2024

Moreover, it utilizes hand-tracking inputs to interact with immersive applications but doesn’t support eye-tracking. Although, that has several unique features, such as eye-tracking. On launch, the Quest 3 128GB model cost $499.9, and the 512GB model cost $649.99.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 22, 2024

The partnership also gives BILT a place as the newest member of its Xcelerator Ecosystem for scaling enterprise XR solutions.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Steam Link now supports Quest Pro's new tongue tracking feature in VRChat. The Steam Link app for Quest has supported Quest Pro's face and eye tracking capabilities since launch and passed it though to VRChat on your PC, but Quest Pro's face tracking didn't include your tongue until an SDK update a few days ago.

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ARPost

MARCH 30, 2021

At Nestle, for example, you have Richard Hess, at BP Anthony DelBarto, and Walter Davis at Aggreko. Health and safety training is also a key focus in the armed forces, with a recent example being virtual reality cargo loading training by the US Air Force. So who are some of the internal champions fuelling the VR adoption?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

Developers have not had great examples yet of how to make visually polished, reliable applications. We’ll continue to provide examples, documentation, and tutorials that will help developers to deliver native-quality applications in WebXR. Privacy is a big concern for XR devices, especially now that eye tracking is coming.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2020

Example image courtesy Admix. In the realm of VR headsets, Admix also says it uses gaze tracking to verify how your ads are consumed, something that’s bound to change once a majority of VR headsets include eye-tracking. The London-based startup’s penultimate funding round brought them $2.1

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Apps using TouchID or FaceID will be forwarded through Vision Pro's eye tracking based OpticID, for example. This includes adding custom hover effects designed for the visionOS eye tracking interaction system. UploadVR David Heaney Some other iPhone and iPad features are automatically adapted for visionOS.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2021

“For example one of the things that I’m really excited about for future versions [of Quest] is getting eye-tracking and face-tracking in, because if you’re really excited about social presence, you want to make sure that the device has all the sensors to really animate realistic avatars so you can communicate well like that.”

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zinn Labs Debuts AI-ready Eye-Tracking System at SPIE.AR|VR|MR One such firm is Zinn Labs, which is introducing its breakthrough AI-powered eye-tracking framework for AR smart glasses and MR headsets. VR|MR 2024 There are many vendors at SPIE.AR|VR|MR VR|MR 2024 that provide insights into their latest XR products.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Frame-based sensors, which traditionally power hand and/or eye tracking on these headsets, tend to drain batteries, so they can’t be used for hours on end. For example, the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 was designed to solve these challenges and provide optimized MR experiences that are already accessible in Meta Quest 3.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2020

When the company introduced the headset earlier this year, it said that its compact design was thanks largely to novel “light folding” optics which not only decreases the distance between the lenses and the display, but also ‘hide’ and eye-tracking camera directly at the center of the lens. Eye-tracking.

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