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

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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. Fove ran a Kickstarter campaign, raising $500,000, and eventually got $13 million in financing from investors including Samsung Electronics Co., Qualcomm Inc. and HTC Corp.

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

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HTC, Oculus, Sony, Samsung, and Google—all of which offer higher quality headsets with the reliability of market-testing, customer support, and general accountability. So, no, the Chinese VR industry is not imploding or crashing and burning. It’s growing. In many ways it’s still doing a whole lot better than America and Europe.

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

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There is something of an arms race developing between the major VR hardware companies (Facebook, Google, HTC, Sony) to add more intuitive controls for VR. The former piece, however, holds a major clue as to why the Facebook-owned VR company made this purchase. The solution seems to lie in one place: our eyes.

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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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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

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The PlayStation VR (short: PSVR), formerly known under the codename Project Morpheus, was released in October 2016 by Sony Interactive Entertainment. As the name suggests, the headset is designed to work with Sony’s PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro video game consoles. Visit Website. Panel/Display. Resolution (combined).

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Best VR Headsets 2018/2019

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The PlayStation VR (short: PSVR), formerly known under the codename Project Morpheus, was released in October 2016 by Sony Interactive Entertainment. As the name suggests, the headset is designed to work with Sony’s PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro video game consoles. Visit Website. Panel/Display. Resolution (combined).

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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Sony however, having debuted it’s PlayStation 4 powered ‘Morpheus’ (later. Sony however would go on to push the Morpheus hard at gaming shows throughout 2015 such that, by the close of that year, the PlayStation VR would become one of VR’s best hopes at reaching out to a mass market audience.