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

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Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash, for example, expects high quality solutions to be implemented into VR headsets five years from now. 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. million in this industry too.

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

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Kojima founded her startup in May 2014, soon after Facebook unveiled its $2 billion acquisition of VR headset maker Oculus. 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.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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LET’S TALK OCULUS: DRM NO MORE AND PATENT FOR NEW VR MOTION. Teleportation has become a common way to move users around a virtual environment, but Oculus was just granted a patent for a novel method of movement that could be more intuitive.

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Creators Behind ‘Monument Valley’, ‘Wallace and Gromit’, and More Share VR Insights Ahead of Develop:VR Conference in London

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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. Daniel Efergan – Group Creative Director of Digital, Aardman Animations. Peter Pashley – Head of Development, Ustwo Games.