Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A video posted by a Vision Pro developer appears to show the current levels of hand-tracking and occlusion performance that Apple’s new headset is capable of. Apple Vision Pro, expected to launch in the next few months , will use hand-tracking as its primary input method.

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Road to VR

APRIL 2, 2017

Now Function has teamed up with eye-tracking specialists Tobii to equip a professional pianist with eye-tracking glasses to see what happens (see the video heading this article). SEE ALSO Tobii Recommends Explicit Consent for Recording Eye Tracking Data.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Bigscreen is a social VR app designed around cowatching video content remotely. The new avatars now have necks and estimated arms (no current VR headset has built-in arm tracking). The company plans to add support for hand tracking and eye tracking later this year for the new avatar system.

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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

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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OCTOBER 4, 2023

On Quest 3, enabled by its new Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipset, the latest update adds support for the AV1 video codec, up to 200 Mbps with the HEVC codec, the ability to use the Godlike quality setting at 120 Hz, and the ability to use Super Resolution upscaling with any quality setting.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

According to Gurman, Apple’s headset will use eye tracking and hand tracking technology in tandem to drive a system that “allows the wearer to control the device by looking at an on-screen item – whether it’s a button, app icon or list entry – to select it.”

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VRScout

JUNE 6, 2023

EyeSight, Environments, and eye-tracking, oh my! This includes everything from 3D “Personas” powered by machine learning technology to spatial video capture, all of which are powered by a one-of-a-kind Apple Silicon two-chip design. The following are just five features we found particularly exciting.

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The Ghost Howls

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. aGlass DK II box on top of HTC Vive one. The device.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Official tutorial videos uncovered today show a previously unseen Oculus headset, controllers, and charging dock. The videos may reveal a new Quest 2 Pro or Quest 3 headset which could be officially revealed this week at Facebook Connect. Image courtesy Andrew Bosworth.

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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. Yes, it is! Hello 7Invensun!

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

million and unlocking free eye-tracking module for every one of their backers who chose a VR headset funding tier. According to an update posted to the Pimax Kickstarter page , all backers will get a free eye-tracking module as a part of the $3 million stretch goal. The post Pimax Kickstarter Nears $3.5M

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2022

Hand and eye tracking solutions represent one of the most significant innovations in the XR space. billion by 2030, while the eye tracking market is expected to grow at a rate of 22.4% billion by 2030, while the eye tracking market is expected to grow at a rate of 22.4% from 2022 to 2030. from 2022 to 2030.

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Road to VR

APRIL 7, 2021

CREAL, a company building light-field display technology for AR and VR headsets, has revealed a new through-the-lens video showing off the performance of its latest VR headset prototype. The new video clearly demonstrates the ability to focus at arbitrary distances, as well as the high resolution of the foveated region.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Switchback VR makes interesting use of the PS VR’s eye-tracking technology to immerse you in a horrifying VR experience where every blink matters. In an official gameplay video provided by developer Supermassive Games, we catch a glimpse of the game in action.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Another is more robust hand and finger tracking , so the incredible variety of quick and precise movements in your hands are accurately represented in a virtual world. 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. Make Eye Contact.

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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! It has very sharp visuals, and with eye tracking, it is super-powerful.

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

MARCH 2, 2017

After hyping everyone up recently with a short teaser video, eye-tracking specialists Tobii have revealed more details and video examples their eye tracking in action at GDC, including integration with social VR application Rec Room.

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2021

This week Google revealed Project Starline, a booth-sized experimental system for immersive video chatting, purportedly using a bevy of sensors, a light-field display, spatial audio, and novel compression to make the whole experience possible over the web. Suddenly you’re looking at a 2D version of your video chat partner again […].”

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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The company does eye tracking using IR LEDs to light up the eyes and IR Cameras to grab the images of the eyes from which an algorithm detects the orientation of the pupils. Glasses frames with eye tracking integrated. One other thing that I was shown was a little device to do eye tracking for microscopes.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Recalibrate Eye-tracking & IPD on Vision Pro Eye-tracking is an essential part of Vision Pro. If you’re having issues with inaccurate eye input, seeing color tinting in your periphery, or dealing with eye-strain that you haven’t had before, you should try recalibrating your eye-tracking and IPD.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2024

First time I tried Vision Pro: Damn this display is amazing and the eye tracking is like magic and this feels very future and also it’s a little heavy Second time: immersion factor is still so high. Special videos are hit or miss, you gotta get the distance right. To him, the headset is heavy.

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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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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It makes changes to the hand tracking UX, adds support for iPhone-captured spatial videos, improves the microphone quality, adds support for multiple mixed reality room setups, improves multitasking, improves Quest Link, adds Facebook live streaming and YouTube Live Chat, and adds support for gamepads on the web.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 27, 2017

Weekly Funding Roundup: Apple Buys German Eye Tracking Firm SensoMotoric Instruments, Adobe Buys Mettle’s SkyBox Tools, and Former Valve initiative CastAR Shuts Down 1) Apple has quietly bought SensoMotoric Instruments , a German maker of eye-tracking glasses. For Apple, the SMI acquisition may offer multi-pronged value.

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JULY 13, 2023

Meta is working on letting you make and join video calls from inside its Quest VR headsets. Messenger audio calling is already available on Quest today, but not video calling. Meta Avatar video calling on smartphones. Facebook actually already did once in the past let people make video calls as an avatar from VR.

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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 Eye Tribe was developed out of research by the founders at IT University Of Copenhagen back in 2009. Read more here.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

XR hardware analyst Brad Lynch has released a new video revealing what he claims to be HTC’s next VR headset. 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

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Video via Mixed Reality News And while he stressed this was just a concept dreamt up by him and his team—not a product roadmap—he said the concept was “practical to build now” with parts that could be readily sourced from the market. Multi-view Eye-tracking Eye-tracking works best when you have multiple views of each eye.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Each team had two HTC Vive Pro Eye’s to play with – the company’s latest enterprise-focused headset – meaning eye-tracking needed to feature in some way. 2nd Place – Munch Mania – A roomscale videogame which used the lip tracking module. Best Audio Prize – An Eye Mosity ?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A hotel worker says he found a Quest Pro sample unit and shared an unboxing video on Facebook. Not everyone believed him, so Cardenas then shared a post from another Facebook page featuring a video of a Quest Pro being unboxed.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

It’s said to include a Snapdragon XR2 processor, eye-tracking, and unique optics which the company calls a “four-fold catadioptric freeform prism.” The benefit of using video passthrough to achieve AR is that the virtual objects can be completely opaque and appear more realistic. Image courtesy Stan Larroque.

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VRScout

JUNE 7, 2023

This includes the ability to set timers, order specific ingredients, and follow interactive videos and recipes without ever having to touch your phone with your dirty little fingers. This is possible thanks to the use of gesture and eye-tracking technology.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 31, 2020

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. So they devised a VR simulation that employed six-degrees-of-freedom and eye-tracking headsets to monitor reactions to product placement.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This includes everything from hand and eye tracking technology, optimized visual fidelity via foveated rendering, an ultra-wide 115-degree field-of-view, and “human-eye resolution” just to name a few. The VR-3 also features integrated 6DoF inside-out tracking, removing the need for the SteamVR base stations.

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