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Oculus Enters The VR Eye-Tracking Arms Race With ‘Eye Tribe’ Acquisition

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Oculus has acquired an eye-tracking startup known as The Eye Tribe , a company spokesman confirmed to UploadVR this morning. According to The Eye Tribe’s website, its technology, allows “eye control for consumer devices that enables simplified and enhanced user experiences.

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Exclusive: SMI’s ‘Social Eye’ Tracking Breathes Life Into Avatars

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German technology firm SMI (SesnoMotoric Instruments) is expanding on its previously disclosed eye-tracking technology to make social interactions in VR more believable. Eye tracking startups Eyefluence and The Eye Tribe were both recently purchased by Google and Facebook respectively.

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Google to Feature High-resolution VR OLED Display for Wide FOV Headsets at SID 2018

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Google announced at last year’s Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week that the company was actively working on a VR-optimized OLED panel capable of packing in pixels at a density heretofore never seen outside of microdisplays – all at a supposedly ‘wide’ field of view (FOV).

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Apple's Mixed Reality Headset Might Forgo Controllers for Eye Tracking and Iris Recognition

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According to reliable Apple analyst Ming-chi Kuo, it’s possible the headset will eschew handheld controllers in favor of eye tracking and iris recognition. There’s no lack of speculation around Apple’s rumored AR headset, but the latest is the most sci-fi of them all. Read more.

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Synaptics Reveals VR Display Chip Targeting 1,000 PPI & Foveated Rendering

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Synaptics, a developer of input and display components for computers, smartphones, and other devices, recently introduced a new version of its ClearView display driver chip which has been optimized for head-mounted displays with high density displays, including a specialized feature for foveated rendering.

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Atlantic, Meta to Debut Sir David Attenborough’s ‘Galapagos’ on Quest TV

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The Hammersmith, London-based company has also partnered with some of the world’s biggest tech and media firms, including Apple, National Geographic, Google, Sony, Meta Platforms, Sky, IMAX, Intel, and many others.

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XR Goes Mainstream at MWC 2024 – Event Roundup

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Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.