XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

VR headsets are gaining new technologies going into 2023, such as eye tracking, hand tracking, and mixed reality (MR) passthrough technology. Meta enhances business outcomes and returns on investment (ROI) by utilizing various immersive technologies like hand and eye tracking in its new product.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The report surveyed respondents from September last year to June to discuss findings across some of the world’s top firms, including Unity Technologies, HTC, manufacturers such as Jaguar Land Rover, and media firm Yahoo, among many others.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Companies like Meta and Pico don’t reveal hardware sales figures, so the Steam Hardware Survey has been the most reliable indicator of PC VR’s adoption. Pico 4 has higher resolution displays than QuestPro but lacks Mini LED backlighting, eye tracking, face tracking, self-tracking controllers, and depth-correct passthrough.

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North America Eye Tracking Data Survey 145

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Galea hardware is designed to be integrated into existing HMDs and is the first device that simultaneously collects data from the wearer’s brain, eyes, heart, skin, and muscles. Our current version includes sensors for EEG, EOG, EMG, PPG, and EDA, with the option to include image-based eye tracking as well.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

Dubbed Pico Neo 3 Pro, the headset is going to cost $699, and its Pico Neo 3 Pro Eye variant, featuring eye-tracking by Tobii, is going to cost $899. Please fill the survey (it just requires a few minutes) and help a young VR company! Take the survey! In the West, it will be sold only as an enterprise device.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

It’s one of the most powerful devices I’ve ever used, with exceptional multi-tasking capabilities, hand and eye-tracking, and phenomenal visual fidelity. Notably, though, the results could have something to do with the people surveyed. I think the Meta Quest 3 will likely be more appealing to everyday consumers.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The Steam Hardware Survey shows just 5% of SteamVR users in September were using any kind of Windows MR headset, compared to 64% using Meta headsets and 17% using the Valve Index. HP also sells a $1,250 Reverb G2 Omnicept model to businesses which includes face tracking & eye tracking.

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Microsoft Eye Tracking Survey Hardware 140

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

The headset (that you see in the above picture) is quite slick and features pancake lenses, eye tracking by Tobii, integrated audio, and Wi-Fi 6/6E/7. More info (Quest 3 on Steam Survey) More info (Me wondering why the Quest 2 is losing shares) Will hand-tracking substitute controllers?

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Hypergrid Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Survey: Enterprise Companies Seeing Strong Return on Investment in VR & AR. LONDON – Businesses working in areas such as automotive, construction, manufacturing and retail are seeing a good return on their investment in virtual and augmented reality, according to an industry survey by VR Intelligence. About VRX and VR Intelligence.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jan Goetgeluk, Virtuix’s Founder and CEO , spoke with XR Today in an exclusive chat, discussing how the firm is distributing and scaling the international availability of its Omni One product at a time when XR headset operators are looking for alternative methods of input, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and omni-treadmill technology.

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India Hardware Eye Tracking Survey 177

Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

PSVR 2 System Pricing & Overall Package For a launch price of $550, PSVR 2 offers some impressive specifications: an OLED display; eye-tracking; adaptive triggers; haptic feedback in both the controllers and headset; and more. I found myself taking deep breaths surveying the scenery in Horizon Call of the Mountain.

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Gaming Eye Tracking Haptic Sony 83

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Road To VR) More info (Steam Hardware Survey?—?Upload It is known that OpenBCI was working with Valve, but now it seems that its upcoming brain-computer interface device, dubbed Galea, will also include eye-tracking provided by Tobii and “incorporate design elements from Valve Index”.

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Apple Magic Leap Oculus Eye Tracking 335

ARPost

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, in XR displays, things can appear several feet away despite the display being within inches of the eyes. See Also: XR Technology Survey: Key Stakeholders Optimistic About Mass Adoption. Because the display is closer to the eyes than the natural environment, one or the other is in poorer focus.

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Study Gesture Control Augmented Reality Technology 179

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Market analysis firm ARtillery Intelligence has conducted a survey about VR in the US.

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AIXR

AUGUST 1, 2022

As well as Pico 4 Pro with added face and eye tracking. A new survey from PWC explores the Metaverse and how businesses can address Metaverse risks from the report. A glimpse into the Pico 4 standalone VR headset. VR Awards will announce their 2022 finalists this week.

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Asia Eye Tracking Virtual Reality Virtual World 52

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The main scope of this position is to prototype, ship, and support consumer gaming products leveraging visual-inertial tracking (HMD and controllers), camera passthrough, environment understanding, eye tracking, and hand tracking. Meta Reality Labs can give you a lot of money if you participate to its surveys.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. When your survey is a bit confusing Funny link. Lynx now aims at an MR headset costing “a couple hundred dollars”. Some XR fun. Funny link.

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Virtual Reality AR Augmented Reality Oculus 344

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

On the UX side, other interesting things are being rumored: the headset would ship with no controller, and rely only on eye tracking and hands tracking for interactions. This doesn’t sound to me very “Apple”. It has been said that the menu will look like a spatial version of the home menu on the iPad.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Eye Tracking: IMR’s algorithm utilises single pass dynamic compression schemes, including foveation, tuneable parameters and offers support for eye tracking. Image Quality: The quality of the decompressed image is indiscernible from the original with no motion blur or introduced artefacts.

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EnterpriseWear

MARCH 4, 2019

Accenture Extended Reality, Qualcomm and Kellogg recently teamed up to pilot an eye-tracking VR headset for retail merchandising. Brands spend a lot of time, money and effort figuring out optimal product placement but are usually limited in the data they’re able to collect (online surveys and in-home user tests can only go so far).

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 14, 2020

A Grid Raster survey this spring found that 56 percent of executives said they had already implemented virtual or augmented reality, and 27 percent had fully deployed their solution and were looking to scale it up. Using sensors from the VR headset and biometrics, they captured eye tracking, 3D positioning and controller actions.

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Training Machine Learning Data Virtual Reality 138

Upload VR

JUNE 16, 2023

This locator creates a window to survey the scene, checking what's around the corner while sneaking about and stepping through for teleport-based locomotion. Her help is limited to friendly advice, but you soon receive a multi-purpose translocator, which acts like a portal gun and fires ball-shaped locators.

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Haptic Eye Tracking Survey Gaming 71

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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Hand tracking AR Augmented Reality Oculus 423

The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

More info (PwC research) More info (Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Counterpoint Research) More info (Moss and Gorn selling more than 1M units). The most notable to me is that the upcoming new headset featuring eye-tracking (that is, the Quest 2 Pro) has already a codename, “SeaCliff”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

The headset had astonishing specifications, like: Display resolution: 1,830 × 1,464 per lens resolution, total 16 million sub-pixels Display type: AMOLED Refresh rate: 90Hz Field of view: 210-degree horizontal FOV, 130-degree vertical FOV Eye-tracking: Fully integrated Tobii eye-tracking, including Dynamic Foveated Rendering.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Apple Tools 378

The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

A new job listing points out to the fact that Oculus is planning to integrate eye tracking in its next devices. More info (Jon Lax’s quote) More info (Osborne Effect) More info ( Eye tracking job listing) More info (Oculus mixing real and virtual) More info (Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell).

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Apple AR Oculus Augmented Reality 167

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Thanks to eye tracking, this headset is able to detect your IPD and automatically adjust the distance between the lenses to fit your eyes. Valve has fixed its hardware survey, showing that VR lately has actually grown very slowly. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Pancake 1Pro : 2280×2280 resolution, miniLED backlight, RGB passthrough, eye tracking (developed with 7invensun), gesture recognition, price not announced yet, available Q4. Pancake 1 : 2280×2280 resolution, 3,999 yuan ($592), preorder August 26, shipping September (China). These look like very interesting devices.

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Sony Controllers Ukraine Immersion 353

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

For example, XR firms like NeuroSync have incorporated their eye-tracking PRO-SYNC solution to monitor gaze, pupil measurements, and other metrics. Findings from the survey revealed over 40 percent of athletes had ‘subclinical deficits’ leading to poor brain performance.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2019

On October, 3rd, HTC has started shipping the Vive Cosmos, its super-versatile VR headset , that thanks to many accessories (wireless adapter, eye tracking add-on , SteamVR tracking faceplate, etc…) is one of the most interesting VR headsets for enterprises and prosumers. Vive Cosmos has just had a not-so-great launch.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Alan: It’s interesting you say that, because I’d been reading a lot of articles around how virtual reality is being used for autism, and to really train people with different levels …on the spectrum, to interact with other students, and kind of studying their eye contact and that sort of thing. Alvin: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Alan: It’s interesting you say that, because I’d been reading a lot of articles around how virtual reality is being used for autism, and to really train people with different levels …on the spectrum, to interact with other students, and kind of studying their eye contact and that sort of thing. Alvin: Yes.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The headset will use its eye tracking capabilities to scan the iris of the user and so understand what user has just put on the headset, unlocking itself and maybe also loading the personal preferences; Large scale mapping. Survey and Medical Image Visualization. The enterprise apps are: Brainlab.

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Magic Leap Augmented Reality AR Florida 169

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The advantage of using 72 Hz is that everything appears smoother, plus the display becomes brighter and the colors warmer ; Fixed foveating : we all know what foveated rendering is and we all know that to be implemented it requires eye tracking. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes.

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AR Magic Leap Oculus Virtual Reality 161

XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. So I could have a meeting with you in virtual space and you and I could see each other, interact with each other, look into each other’s eyes because it now has eye tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. So I could have a meeting with you in virtual space and you and I could see each other, interact with each other, look into each other’s eyes because it now has eye tracking.

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AR Magic Leap Augmented Reality Course 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: One of the other sobering statistics that I just read from an article today — and I’m trying to remember… oh, it was a survey from MetLife — noted that’s something like a 15 percent increase of people having to postpone to retirement because of finances. That will be the largest part of the population.

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