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Eye-Tracking Group Tobii Plans To Invest $16 Million In VR By 2019

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million in this industry too. 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. Google also recently purchased Eyefluence, suggesting we could see eye-tracking in headsets powered by Google in the years to come.

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90% of Chinese VR Startups Have Gone Bankrupt. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.

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It may look like China’s VR industry is imploding, but that’s not actually the case. The first bit to point out, of course, is that 90% of startups in any industry fail. As it turns out, investment is still flowing into the Chinese VR industry. Expectedly, the many seized the opportunity for a feeding frenzy.

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How Eye Tracking is Driving the Next Generation of AR and VR

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The industry has been experiencing a boom in recent years with hundreds of startups and heavy investment from tech giants including Google, Apple, Samsung, and Facebook. Industry Is Changing. In January of 2017, FOVE, a Japanese VR startup, released the first eye-tracking VR headset. Eye Tracking & Innovation.

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Oculus Enters The VR Eye-Tracking Arms Race With ‘Eye Tribe’ Acquisition

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The Eye Tribe intends to become the leading provider of eye control technology by licensing to vendors in the consumer technology industry.” There is something of an arms race developing between the major VR hardware companies (Facebook, Google, HTC, Sony) to add more intuitive controls for VR.

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River Ecosystem is more than just Mike Rothenberg. It's a f **g ecosystem of hungry innovators and tech talents looking to prove themselves. Check out just a few.

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"As a River Accelerator alumnus, I know first-hand what the program can offer to budding frontier technology entrepreneurs, including unparalleled visibility and networking opportunities with investors and industry luminaries, and access to developmental resources during the critical first year," said Canafax.

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CES 2017 VR And AR News Roundup: Everything You Might Have Missed

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Many of the biggest companies on the planet, from Samsung and HTC, to Facebook, Amazon, and Google, and even all the way to Ford, Mercedez, and countless startups, all gather in the desert at the start of the year to unveil the latest and greatest advancements in consumer electronics. It’s hard to keep up with.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Episode 28 of the VRScout Report, we got new 360 toys on iOS, Hololens is helping elevator technicians, VR might help you control your dreams, Apple CEO Tim Cook on augmented reality, VR/AR industry funding wrapup, and more… iOS NOW CAN TAKE 360 PHOTOS WITH GOOGLE CARDBOARD CAMERA, TOO.

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