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

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Oculus has acquired an eye-tracking startup known as The Eye Tribe , a company spokesman confirmed to UploadVR this morning. ” The latter half of that mission statement is likely rendered moot now that The Eye Tribe has been acquired by Oculus. .” Before the Oculus acquisition, The Eye Tribe had managed to raise around $5.3

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

AllThingsVR

29-Year-Old Gamer Leaves Sony Behind to Bring Eye-Tracking to Virtual Reality Kojima, 29, is convinced the technology will become commonplace in VR devices. Kojima founded her startup in May 2014, soon after Facebook unveiled its $2 billion acquisition of VR headset maker Oculus. Qualcomm Inc. game maker Colopl Inc., and HTC Corp.

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90% of Chinese VR Startups Have Gone Bankrupt. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.

VRScout

In the wake of Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014, investment spiked: 270 million yuan ($38.9 HTC, Oculus, Sony, Samsung, and Google—all of which offer higher quality headsets with the reliability of market-testing, customer support, and general accountability. The next year, that number would cap at 2.4

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

Road to VR

Focused on harnessing immersive technologies to deliver groundbreaking VR, AR, Animation, DOOH, VFX and 360 degree video projects for some of the world’s largest brands including Sony, BBC, Red Bull, Microsoft and Lexus. Peter Pashley – Head of Development, Ustwo Games.

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Learn about Headsets

Delight XR

Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Thanks to LibreVR/Revive project, Vive users can also play some of the Oculus Rift exclusive titles. Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. The Oculus Rift has benefited from recent sales and is now available for 419€ (US $379).

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Best VR Headsets 2018/2019

Delight XR

Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Thanks to LibreVR/Revive project, Vive users can also play some of the Oculus Rift exclusive titles. Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. The Oculus Rift has benefited from recent sales and is now available for 419€ (US $379).

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. CES 2013 however gave us the first glimpse of Oculus VR operating as a company.