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29-Year-Old Gamer Leaves Sony Behind to Bring Eye-Tracking to.

AllThingsVR

Fove ran a Kickstarter campaign, raising $500,000, and eventually got $13 million in financing from investors including Samsung Electronics Co., and Taizo Son, the younger brother of SoftBank Group Corp. An early version of Fove’s eye-tracking VR goggles will be available to developers and enthusiasts for pre-order on Nov.

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

Road to VR

I was told to look at a group of rotating gems that popped after I looked directly at one and said the word “pop!” Image courtesy Microsoft. The last portion of the demo had one of the most plainly practical uses I’ve seen for eye-tracking thus far: reactive text scrolling.