Road to VR

APRIL 27, 2017

7invensun, one of the latest companies accepted into HTC’s Vive X accelerator program, is launching an eye-tracking add-on made specially for the Vive headset. Meeting with 7invensun at HTC’s Vive X accelerator space in San Francisco today, I got to see the aGlass eye-tracking development kit in action.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 23, 2018

Companies can now track where a users’ gaze wanders and use that data to design fine-tuned experiences. Eye-tracking technology is nothing new in itself, but it is gaining rapidly both in scope and popularity as immersive virtual experiences become more widely used both in business and leisure contexts.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2022

As XR technologies become more accessible for companies and consumers alike, the demand for immersive hand and eye tracking solutions is growing. With tracking technologies, companies can build more immersive experiences for XR users. Here are some of our most popular hand and eye tracking tools to guide your purchasing choices.

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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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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

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. million in this industry too. The Swedish company plans to invest around $16.6

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Road to VR

AUGUST 14, 2018

StarVR today revealed the StarVR One headset at SIGGRAPH 2018, an upgrade to previous StarVR headsets which incorporates SteamVR Tracking 2.0, eye-tracking, and a slew of enhancements. The StarVR SDK is “designed to be familiar to developers working with existing industry standards […],” according to StarVR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 26, 2022

Meta Platforms Inc is mulling a potential buyout of AdHawk Microsystems, a virtual reality (VR) eye-tracking technology firm, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing anonymous sources. New story: Meta/Facebook is considering acquiring AdHawk Microsystems, which develops eye-tracking tech for AR/VR that doesn’t require cameras [link].

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The VR-1 also includes custom-made eye-tracking which the company claims delivers “unmatched precision and accuracy” in a stereo eye-tracking solution. SteamVR Tracking 2.0 Image courtesy Varjo. The headset is priced at $6,000 in addition to a yearly service license of $1,000.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And as I promised you, I’m sharing with you all my impressions , so you will feel as if you were here with me… Today I will talk with you about the WCVRI event, the RealMax AR glasses and the Droolon F1 eye tracking accessory! This signs seems to say: 2019 World Conference on NO VR INDUSTRY. Is it really important?

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MAY 2, 2017

Back in mid-April we wrote about a new patent from Oculus that further supported theories the company may one day release hand-tracking gloves for VR experiences. Now another new patent points to the company’s work in eye tracking. Why would eye tracking integrated into a wired PC headset like the Rift need a battery?

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2023

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

For instance, hand and eye tracking solutions are quickly becoming a must-have part of every XR creation. If you’re keen to learn more about hand and eye tracking technology, attending the right events can be an excellent way to get started. Augmented Enterprise Summit. October 18-20, 2022, San Diego, California.

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MAY 31, 2017

There are multiple initiatives across the VR industry attempting to provide the most immersive and involving social experience the platform can provide. The FOVE headset, which we covered recently during GDC , provides an eye-tracking solution.

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JULY 3, 2017

This Korean company confirmed it is implementing eye-tracking into the reference design. We don’t know what Samsung’s plans for the device are just yet but given that this is a prototype for potential future products it’s very possible any consumer products that come out of this design sport eye-tracking too.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

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. FOVE’s new design showing Vive-like strap system. FOVE’s Journey.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2024

HTC says the Face-tracking add-on for Vive XR Elite is available staring today, priced at $200. It adds two cameras for eye-tracking and one camera for mouth-tracking. Image courtesy HTC According to HTC, eye-tracking is captured at 120Hz while mouth-tracking is captured at 60Hz.

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VRScout

APRIL 7, 2021

Originally revealed back in September 2020, HP’s professional-grade VR headset offers a variety of enhancements over the basic G2, including an eye-tracking & pupillometry sensor from Tobii, heart rate sensor, and face camera. ” Image Credit: HP.

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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. This could have a huge impact in multiple industries, from design and product marketing to healthcare. Image Credit: Theia Interactive.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Eye-tracking is arguably one of the most important pieces of VR’s future, and SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) and Valve are working together to bring the tech closer to reality. Those units have been shipped out to research partners who are currently busy toiling away at getting the most out of VR eye-tracking.

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OCTOBER 23, 2016

“VR technology is the ideal environment for eye tracking. The new patent will give us the ability to expand upon the already useful product we’ve created and the capabilities of multiple industries utilizing VR headsets.”. SyncThink’s eye-tracking technology can yield analytics on what a consumer is doing.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

So it’s no wonder that industrial giant Thyssenkrupp elevators is predicting that demand for stair lift solutions will skyrocket in the next few years, especially as urban populations grow. It’s one of those cases that illustrate the unique advantage of the HoloLens for industry applications.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Vision Pro's operating system, visionOS, is controlled with eye tracking and hand gestures. Your eyes are the targeting system, like moving your mouse or hovering your finger over a touchscreen, while pinching your index finger and thumb together is the equivalent of the click or tap.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The information, according to Lynch, comes from “many industry sources,” most of which from the supply chain. Lynch speculates that this port could be used for eye-tracking accessories seeing as the device supposedly lacks any form of built-in eye-tracking technology.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Only the more expensive variant—the ‘Focal Edition’, priced at $10,000—will reach that peak visual quality thanks to an eye-tracked auto-focus system which adjusts the cameras to keep the world in sharp focus wherever you’re looking around the scene.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Earlier this morning, VR hardware manufacturer Varjo revealed the latest additions to its lineup of human-eye resolution mixed reality headsets, the Varjo XR-3 and Varjo VR-3. The VR-3 also features integrated 6DoF inside-out tracking, removing the need for the SteamVR base stations.

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Whether or not it could be mass produced in the ballpark of $3,500 is an unanswered question, but Lanman said he thinks the industry is ready to reach “a new plateau” with a device like Mirror Lake. Multi-view Eye-tracking Eye-tracking works best when you have multiple views of each eye.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Back in September we reported that eye-tracking VR headset, FOVE 0, would be going up for pre-order on November 2nd. It’s also crucial to foveated rendering, a development technique that will only fully render the area of a display your eyes are focusing on, taking much of the processing strain away.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

“Now in its ninth year, Connect brings together AR/VR developers, creators, marketers, and more to celebrate the industry and its growth, while also exploring what it will take to bring the metaverse to life,” said the company in an official blog post. Meta Connect 2022 will take place on October 11th at 10AM via livestream.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Aero is essentially a pared down version of the company’s strictly enterprise headsets, offering industry-leading fidelity and advanced features such as eye-tracking. Cable Length 5m Tracking SteamVR Tracking 1.0 DisplayPort 1.4)

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The enterprise-focused device features a variety of impressive features, including hand and eye tracking as well as a bold new lens design that promises better visuals in a more compact design. . This is especially impressive considering the R1 is capable of running both VR as well as passthrough AR experiences. Image Credit: LYNX.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

Suffice it to say it will make everything from opening a menu to sending a text as easy with your eyes in the future as it is today with your fingers. Google will also be gaining a crucial set of 18 utility patents from Eyefluence on usages ranging from eye-tracking and UI interaction, to biometric security scanning.

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