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JANUARY 26, 2017

The experience is actually coming to eye-tracking underdog, FOVE 0. FOVE recently posted a web page for the experience, complete with the art you see above, though it’s impossible to work out much about it unless you speak fluent Japanese. We’ve reached out to FOVE about the possibility of a western release.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The more major headsets have their issues as well and FOVE has partnered with AMD to demo a new style of rendering that could influence the trajectory of the VR industry as a whole. FOVE developed their own VR headset, which was funded with over $400k in contributions via Kickstarter.

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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. FOVE 0 costs $599, though it’s available at a discounted price of $549 for its first week on an official website. As promised, orders are now live, and the kit’s price as been revealed.

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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. At this point it’s important to note I’m not here to assess the FOVE itself; we’ll be doing that later on. So how did this unexpected partnership come about?

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JANUARY 4, 2017

If you’re one of the nearly 1,500 people who backed the eye-tracking FOVE 0 VR headset on Kickstarter last year, then good news: FOVE has announced that the headset will begin shipping out to its first customers later this month. … Continue reading.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0 Costs $599, Starts Shipping This Year Back in September we reported that eye-tracking VR headset, FOVE 0, would be going up for pre-order on November 2nd. FOVE 0 costs $599, though it’s available at a discounted price of $549 for its first week on an official website. Read more here.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Pre-orders for the Fove 0 eye-tracking VR headset go live November 2 Fove will begin taking pre-orders for the eye-tracking headset, now officially called the Fove 0, at 8am PST on November 2. In addition to the few details regarding launch, the team at Fove also shared final tech specs for the device.

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MAY 31, 2017

Face and Communication Entertainment, or FACE, is a project from a Colopl company called 360ch that is building a social VR demo collaborating with BinaryVR, Facerig, and FOVE. The FOVE headset, which we covered recently during GDC , provides an eye-tracking solution.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Eye-tracking has a number of applications for VR, including foveated rendering and avatar replication, and can already been seen in upcoming headsets like the FOVE 0. We recently tried eye-tracking as a means of input inside VR with FOVE, though found it came with its own set of problems. The company intends to spend another $16.6

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

In January of 2017, FOVE, a Japanese VR startup, released the first eye-tracking VR headset. Now that FOVE has released the first eye-tracking VR headset, we might expect these functionalities will soon come standard in a range of products—from affordable smartphone headsets to high-end systems. Industry Is Changing.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Plenty of virtual reality headsets have hit the market since we first saw FOVE back in May 2015, but none can do what the Samsung-backed VR system can.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Rothenberg Ventures is a VR-focused venture capital company that has made early-stage investments in VR startups like Wevr , Jaunt , AltspaceVR and FOVE. River Studios Los Angeles will help service the high demand for VR production work that Rothenberg frequently gets contacted for by partners.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

This will give headset startups in China and abroad (like Japan’s FOVE) enough space to see if an innovative indie product can hold its own against the big leagues—particularly in a competitive market like China. According to Zhao Ziming, an analyst from Analysys, Ltd., The post 90% of Chinese VR Startups Have Gone Bankrupt.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

We’ll also talk about Arizona Sunshine ‘s amazing success and the FOVE eye-tracking headset. This week, we’re giving you our big VR predictions for 2017 which include the potential emergence of Facebook VR and the growth of immersive education. Have questions? Email joe@uploadvr.com to have your inquiry read on the air!

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

See Also: FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset. FOVE VR is able to track a user’s eye movements allowing for people to take actions through eye gaze and blinking. With our technology, that is possible – it literally enables your computer to know when you are having a bad day or when you are tired.”.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Companies like FOVE are having big breakthroughs using eye tracking to enhance social interaction in VR and foveated rendering techniques could make VR/AR more processor efficient than ever. Eye controls are the future for immersive tech, but there are other use cases for eye tracking too.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Fove ran a Kickstarter campaign, raising $500,000, and eventually got $13 million in financing from investors including Samsung Electronics Co., Qualcomm Inc. earlier this month announced a reference design for an eye-tracking headset that uses its Snapdragon chip. game maker Colopl Inc., electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Co.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

That’s something that eye-tracking headset FOVE is looking into , as announced this week, and will no doubt become an important feature of many devices in the future. This hugely efficient process means apps won’t have to render a full screen at all times, and could feasibly lower the barrier to entry for VR hardware.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

In the meantime, an eye-tracking VR headset startup called Fove has raised $11 million, while SensoMotoric Instruments has brought eye-tracking to avatars in Altspace’s social VR construct. This year The Eye Tribe unveiled a $199 pro version of its tracking device that it says can be as much as 10X cheaper than comparable models.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

There are of course a variety of standalone VR headsets and other contenders coming like the eye-tracking FOVE , which these games could just as easily be suited for. There’s also PS VR’s Aim controller , which is currently only confirmed to support upcoming exclusive, Farpoint.

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JUNE 8, 2017

River Ecosystem partners with Rothenberg Ventures to provide $100,000+ of investment to startups in the River Accelerator.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

See Also: FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset. Researcher Hao Li told me that eye tracking is pretty essential in order to take VR social presence to the next level, and so I expect that the second generation of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive would both include eye tracking technologies.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Eye-tracking isn’t a new concept to the world of virtual reality: businesses like Tobii and FOVE have been known for quite a while for working on eye-tracking tech, but usually for gaming implementations.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Some of these freebies however could easily fetch the interest of their own dedicated Kickstarter campaigns (some even have already, including VR Lens Lab , VR Cover Facial Interfaces , and FOVE eye-tracking headset ), so it remains to be seen exactly how Pimax intends on delivering some of their more complex add-ons.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Companies like FOVE are already hoping to create headsets that have this capability but it would be a significant coup to see it incorporated into one of the industry’s most “mainstream” devices. Tech like this could help us build more realistic virtual avatars and use those creations far more naturally than before.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our hands-on piece with FOVE , the only purpose-built eye-tracking VR headset out currently, Executive Editor Ben Lang hashed out a number of use-cases where augmented and virtual reality could benefit from eye-tracking.

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MAY 9, 2018

Fove is selling a development kit of their VR headset with inbuilt eye-tracking. Companies like Tobii are offering eye-tracking hardware and software to manufacturers and developers; Qualcomm is now offering Tobii’s solution in their VRDK headset. 7invensun is selling the aGlass eye-tracking development kit for Vive headsets.

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MARCH 17, 2017

He works at FOVE which is making a VR headset with eye-tracking, but wanted to speak to me on his own behalf about some of the deeper philosophical questions and conceptual frameworks around the types of intimate data that will become available to VR headsets.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0 Costs $599, Starts Shipping January 2017 [ Link ]. The ASUS ZenFone AR is both Tango and Daydream ready, Lenovo showed a new Project Alloy demo, and the cherry on top was the debut of the Vive Tracker for new accessories and the upcoming Deluxe Audio Strap.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

FOVE, THE EYE-TRACKING HMD: FINAL SPECS AND PRE-ORDER DATES. Announcing zVentures , a $30M venture capital fund, Razer will be strategically funding companies in the ioT, big data analytics, AR/VR, robotics, and Android gaming areas. …and more. THE STORY OF THE 2016 NBA FINALS IN VR. LIVE STREAMED OKLAHOMA VS. OHIO STATE IN VR.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The team has also been working closely as an approved content provider for Oculus (Rift), Valve (Vive), Samsung (Gear VR) and Fove, plus building release VR demos for Autodesk, AMD and The Foundry. Peter Pashley – Head of Development, Ustwo Games.

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JUNE 26, 2016

River Studios, born out of Rothenberg Ventures (which has early-stage investments in VR companies like FOVE, Jaunt, WEVR, and AltspaceVR) in 2015 as the answer to VR production work requests.

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MARCH 6, 2017

FOVE is distributing a eye-tracking headset too. In fact, all the technologies mentioned in this post are being distributed to select developers as kits so they can start to build software around these upcoming advancements.

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JULY 21, 2016

Japan-based FOVE raised $11 million following a successful Kickstarter to develop a consumer VR headset with built-in eye tracking. A VR headset equipped with SMI’s eye-tracking tech. So we won’t be seeing foveated rendering in consumer virtual reality until VR headsets adopt eye-tracking technology.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

” My brief time with the eye-tracking in HoloLens 2 left me with a good impression; though I didn’t have a way to measure it, I’ve tried nearly every in-headset eye-tracking implementation spanning the 2015-era Fove headset up to Tobii’s new integration with HTC Vive Pro Eye ). Image courtesy Microsoft.

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JULY 19, 2016

Fove has created an eye-tracking headset, which other headset manufacturers may seek to include in future iterations. Franken wasn’t satisfied with the answers, and has avowed to continue fighting for consumer privacy in the virtual reality arena. Sadly, it seems this may be the tip of the iceberg on the issue.

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