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Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0 Costs $599, Starts Shipping This Year

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Back in September we reported that eye-tracking VR headset, FOVE 0, would be going up for pre-order on November 2nd. FOVE 0 costs $599, though it’s available at a discounted price of $549 for its first week on an official website. That’s the same price as an Oculus Rift without the Oculus Touch controllers.

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Hands-On With Rewind’s Eye-Tracking Shooter, ‘Project Falcon’ for FOVE 0

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When the UK-based VR studio, Rewind, asked me if I wanted to come and see a demo of its eye-tracking tech demo for the upcoming FOVE 0 headset, I was intrigued. It went down “fantastically well”, according to Kibblewhite, and even a certain Oculus Rift inventor saw it and liked it.

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

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Oculus has acquired an eye-tracking startup known as The Eye Tribe , a company spokesman confirmed to UploadVR this morning. The Eye Tribe intends to become the leading provider of eye control technology by licensing to vendors in the consumer technology industry.” million through various investors as well as $2.3

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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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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. 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.

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A Work in Progress: Virtual Reality

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On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Oculus has sold an estimated 250k Rifts. ” and “Does Oculus currently sell this information to third parties? VR Consumption, 2016.

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

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At UploadVR we’re dedicated to addressing the VR and AR industries as thoroughly as we can, which often means a torrential downpour of coverage. Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0 Costs $599, Starts Shipping January 2017 [ Link ]. We Visited The First Oculus-Powered Bar In Las Vegas [ Link ]. It’s hard to keep up with.

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