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Valve, SMI and Tobii Preview VR’s Eye Tracking Future In HTC Vive

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Still another example is eye tracking, and we’ve seen demonstrations from both Tobii and SMI in the HTC Vive offering a glimpse of how much better future VR systems will be at understanding our behavior. This type of data is already used to optimize video game design. FOVE is distributing a eye-tracking headset too.

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GDC 2017: SMI Is Working With Valve To Bring Eye-Tracking To OpenVR

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Not only that, but the pair have also successfully integrated SMI’s tech into select HTC Vive units. In fact, this tech is apparently behind the mixed reality face-scanning tech that Google demonstrated last week, bringing a user’s full face into these videos.

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SMI Talks Eye Tracking VR Applications & Foveated Rendering

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Sensomotoric Instruments (SMI) is a German-based eye tracking company who has released an eye tracking kit for the Oculus DK2 & Gear VR , and most recently for the HTC Vive. See Also: FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset. Here’s a recent demo of using SMI eye tracking with the HTC Vive.

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Learn about Headsets

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The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. HTC Vive Pro. Click on any VR Headset to learn more.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. Eye tracking: Fove: Eyefluence: SMI: Bladerunner (film). Avatar (film).

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Best VR Headsets 2018/2019

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The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. HTC Vive Pro. Click on any VR Headset to learn more.

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