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How Eye Tracking is Driving the Next Generation of AR and VR

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The industry has been experiencing a boom in recent years with hundreds of startups and heavy investment from tech giants including Google, Apple, Samsung, and Facebook. Historically, the technology has been used to collect information for scientific and business applications, such as market research and medical diagnostics.

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A Work in Progress: Virtual Reality

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Samsung Gear VR expected 3.5 ” and “Does Oculus currently sell this information to third parties? Fove has created an eye-tracking headset, which other headset manufacturers may seek to include in future iterations. Gen Z is the the most passionate segment in VR. Average time spent in headset is 25 minutes.

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Korean Patent Shows Samsung Gear VR with Positional, Face and Eye Tracking

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The Samsung Gear VR is one of the most successful virtual reality headsets of all time when it comes to pure numbers. According to at least one objective analysis , the Samsung and Oculus-developed device is projected to sell upward of 2 million units by the end of this year. We will bring you more Gear VR news as it becomes available.