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DECEMBER 28, 2016

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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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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MAY 17, 2021

During the Chinese counterpart of the event, the V2EC, Vive has also announced two other interesting pieces of news: The 7Invensun Droolon F2, an eye-tracking add-on for the Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, coming soon for $299. PSVR2 may feature 4K display and eye tracking. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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MARCH 8, 2021

“One of the things that I’m really excited about for future versions is getting eye tracking and face tracking in.” A proprietary social experience designed specifically for Oculus Quest headsets, Facebook Horizon was originally scheduled to launch in early 2020.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2017

ARM Holdings and Sensormotoric Instruments (SMI) are teaming up at GDC to showcase the potential of powerful mobile GPUs, eye-tracking and foveated rendering technologies in a new made-for-VR demo that will debut at GDC next week. SEE ALSO Hands On: SMI's Gear VR Eye Tracking is Accurate, Fast and Lightweight.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2018

One of the best of them is when in Beijing I visited the company 7Invensun , a worldwide excellence in eye tracking. For sure you remember the name 7Invensun: I have already interviewed them when they announced that their eye tracking module aGlass DK II was able to provide eye tracking not only for the Vive, but even for the Vive Pro.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In China I met the company 7Invensun , that is a worldwide leader for what concerns eye tracking. Being them very kind, they gave me as a gift an aGlass DK II eye tracking add on for HTC Vive and I used it to experiment with eye tracking interfaces. The hardware setup is really easy. The device.

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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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JUNE 20, 2019

Facebook’s sixth annual Oculus Connect will take place September 25th & 26th at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA, introducing developers, content creators, and other VR fanatics to the latest advancements made by the Oculus team. Image Credit: Facebook / Oculus. We are building hardware products.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

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. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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JULY 1, 2021

Russian state corporation Roscosmos reveals a prototype of its new VR headset, announces additional hardware for 2021. This past February, Roscosmos, a state corporation of the Russian Federation specializing in space flight, announced that it was in production of consumer-focused VR hardware. Image Credit: Roscosmos.

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MAY 2, 2018

Oculus today at F8 overviewed some of the latest VR technology that they’d been working on internally. Among the projects mentioned is the ‘Half Dome’ prototype, a Rift-like headset with a 140 degree field of view, varifocal displays, and what appears to be eye-tracking. Image courtesy Facebook.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Eye tracking experts SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) have collaborated with Valve to bring their technology to OpenVR. Eye tracking-enabled HTC Vive units are being shown at GDC 2017, as part of an R&D effort to integrate eye-tracking support into Valve’s OpenVR API.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Oculus Research, the company’s R&D division, recently published a paper that goes deeper into their eye tracking-assisted, multi-focal display tech, detailing the creation of something they dub a “perceptual” testbed. Oculus Research’s perceptual testbed goes a few steps further however.

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Slashgear

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Eye-tracking inside virtual reality headsets may soon become all too real. Oculus’ acquisition of The Eye Tribe could jump-start the technology reaching the public.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 10, 2022

They had no new hardware for me to review, but they let me have a test with a Neo 3 Pro Eye ( Pico Neo 3 with Tobii eye-tracking incorporated) and showed me a few demos while they explained to me me the importance of eye-tracking. With eye tracking, the avatar felt of course more natural.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 25, 2022

vr #ar #xr #meta #metaquestpro #connect #oculus #passthrough #virtualreality #mixedreality #augmentedreality pic.twitter.com/liAkLeP5rB — Immersed (@ImmersedVR) October 13, 2022. Productivity apps such as Immersed also benefit from the new hardware by allowing you access to multiple desktop monitors in mixed reality.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

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. Tracking: Head Tracking.

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MARCH 13, 2018

Oculus Research’s director of computational imaging, Douglas Lanman, is scheduled to give a keynote presentation at SID DisplayWeek in May which will explore the concept of “reactive displays” and their role in unlocking “next-generation” visuals in AR and VR headsets. An eye-tracking addon for the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2019

Some weeks ago, Oculus has announced that it has finally released the new avateering system that had been announced at Oculus Connect 5. So, these new Oculus Avatars have not the ambition of resembling real people , but just to be better than the previous iteration. Look, it’s me! That’s quite natural.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together.

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OCTOBER 23, 2016

But the patent will have to survive legal challenges, as a lot of companies, from Facebook’s Oculus to Eyefluence , are working on similar technology. SyncThink hopes to innovate with improved ways to control and navigate in VR, using the tracking of eye movements to control actions. “VR 9,439,592 from the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

FOVE is the first virtual reality headset that uses eye tracking. Just as Oculus with their Rift, FOVE started a Kickstarter back in May 2015. FOVE’s eye tracking technology uses infrared to track eye movements with accuracy and low latency. Some of you may have heard about the FOVE VR headset.

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JUNE 15, 2020

The Pico Neo 2 Eye is a standalone VR headset built for business. Going by the hardware specifications, it is an upgrade in many areas compared to the Oculus Quest. Plus, it has some unique features too, like electromagnetic tracking, wireless SteamVR streaming, and integrated eye-tracking. Eye-Tracking.

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MARCH 16, 2019

According to a report by UploadVR , citing emails sent from Facebook to Oculus developers, the rumored Rift S headsets will be revealed next week at GDC. Rift S was first brought to light in a TechCrunch report last year about the leadership shakeup at Oculus and purported shifting product plans. Image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2020

Enterprise-level Tobii eye-tracking and foveated rendering at an affordable price. The newly launched Neo 2 & Neo 2 Eye headsets from Pico Interactive are lightweight, untethered, deliver 4K, and look most like a beefed-up Oculus Quest. To be blunt, the Neo 2 feels like a Quest with upgraded hardware and capabilities.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Oculus co-founder and Facebook’s head of PC VR Brendan Iribe is leaving the company amidst a TechCrunch report that Facebook cancelled its second iteration of Rift. SEE ALSO Oculus Co-founder Departs Facebook Amidst Rumor of Rift 2 Cancellation. Image courtesy Facebook.

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JUNE 23, 2016

The StarVR prototype I tried at E3 2016 was tracked using Sixense STEM, but Marquez tells me that the company is working on its own roomscale tracking system for StarVR which is based on different tech than Oculus’ ‘Constellation’ or Valve’s ‘Lighthouse’ systems. While the StarVR 1.4

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Oculus Connect 6 is approaching. Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. What will Oculus announce? No new VR hardware announcement. It would be a crazy move.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, is here once again. Now in its fifth year, Oculus is expected to update the world on what’s next from in VR content and hardware. Taking place this week on the 26th & 27th, Oculus Connect 5 will be hosted in San Jose, CA. Image courtesy Oculus.

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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Reminder: at more than $800 Cambria is likely meant for prosumers and developers looking to get their hands on a VR headset capable of AR interactions (aka ‘mixed reality’) thanks to color passthrough and built-in eye tracking.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Displays : Dual Mini LED LCD; 2880 x 2720 px per eye Refresh rate : 90 Hz Optics : Custom-made variable resolution aspheric lenses with 35 PPD peak fidelity Field of View : Horizontal: 115°, Diagonal: 134° at 12 mm eye relief Interpupillary Distance : Automatic IPD adjustment with motor, Supported IPD range: 57–73 mm Audio : 3.5

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Image courtesy Oculus. His predictions for headset capabilities in the year 2021 were 4K × 4K resolution per-eye, a 140 degree field of view, and variable depth of focus. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus. Optics & Displays. Controllers & Input.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Despite its $3,500 sticker price, Vision Pro has shown that big and expensive is okay as long as you can engage diehard fans with compelling hardware and greater ecosystem integration. Provided that carries over to Samsung hardware, it would put it somewhere north of Quest Pro in hardware features, and very likely price as well.

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MAY 3, 2018

Besides the fact that Oculus is undoubtedly working on a second flagship PC VR headset, nothing is known about it thus far. ” In response, Mitchell had this to say: “[Maria Fernandez Guajardo, Head of Product Management, Core Tech at Oculus] covered a bunch of areas of long term research for us. Image courtesy Facebook.

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