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

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Tobii will continue to develop and supply new eye-tracking hardware and algorithms as part of its plans, which hopefully means it will be creating some of those solutions. 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.

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Hands-on: HoloLens 2 is a More Than Just a Larger Field of View

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That’s all well and good, but is the HoloLens 2 hardware truly a ‘2.0’ I was told to look at a group of rotating gems that popped after I looked directly at one and said the word “pop! ’ step forward? That’s the question that ran through my mind for my half-hour session strapped into the AR headset.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Oculus has done a quick 180 on their position on Digital Rights Management: after repeatedly blocking patches that would enable users to access non-Oculus content, Oculus quietly updated its hardware-specific runtime and removed all evidence of that controversial DRM – and did not mention the change in its runtime notes.

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