The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. All VR interfaces will change with the introduction of eye tracking, becoming more intuitive. Let’s talk a bit about eye tracking. Yes, it is! Hello 7Invensun!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

This Tuesday, Nreal unveiled a hand-tracking update to its augmented reality (AR) software development kit (SDK) for the Chinese company’s lineup of smart glasses, including new controller support and eye tracking options. AI+AR = our new Hand Tracking API. Eye tracking. Nreal (@Nreal) August 16, 2022.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 20, 2017

Tobii Pro brings eye-tracking research to VR The eye tracking company is integrating its technology into the HTC Vive business edition headset for commercial and academic research. It’s also becoming apparent that eye tracking within VR can have a role to play in helping to understand human behavior.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. How Does Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity Work? Currently, Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity offers visualisations of more than 2,500 cities in 49 nations.

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VRScout

JULY 22, 2023

Unity developers can build spatial computing experiences for visionOS that blend digital content with the physical world using Unity PolySpatial. Through this beta program, you and other creatives will be able to create experiences using Unity editor that can run on the Apple Vision Pro MR headset. for Apple Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Apple Vision Pro, expected to launch in the next few months , will use hand-tracking as its primary input method. While system-level interactions combine hand-tracking with eye-tracking for a ‘look and tap’ modality, developers can also build applications that allow users to interact directly with applications using their hands.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The VR-1 also includes custom-made eye-tracking which the company claims delivers “unmatched precision and accuracy” in a stereo eye-tracking solution. SteamVR Tracking 2.0 Image courtesy Varjo. An SDK is also available for integration into custom 3D engines.

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VRScout

APRIL 7, 2021

Originally revealed back in September 2020, HP’s professional-grade VR headset offers a variety of enhancements over the basic G2, including an eye-tracking & pupillometry sensor from Tobii, heart rate sensor, and face camera.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

FOVE, the company behind the eponymous eye-tracking VR headset, today announced that they will be showing off a new industrial design at both Comic-Con and SIGGRAPH 2016 where attendees will have a chance to demo the new headset design themselves. Previous FOVE design | See Also: FOVE’s Eye-tracking VR Headset Was the Next Best at CES.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

HTC today announced it’s releasing both facial and eye-tracking units for its Vive Focus 3 standalone VR headset. ” The unit, which attaches to the headset’s USB-C port, is built around a mono tracking camera clocked at 60Hz. Image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. The development packages are usable only by people having Unity Pro or Enterprise, but the documentation is publicly available for everyone to see. PC), it can be built and deployed on all other platforms (e.g.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This includes everything from hand and eye tracking technology, optimized visual fidelity via foveated rendering, an ultra-wide 115-degree field-of-view, and “human-eye resolution” just to name a few. The VR-3 also features integrated 6DoF inside-out tracking, removing the need for the SteamVR base stations.

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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2023

Rec Room was the only native VR app shown during the part of the keynote discussing third-part apps, which are coming to the headset via Apple’s integration of the Unity game engine. Notably, Vision Pro doesn’t offer any sort of motion controller, instead relying on hand and eye-tracking, and voice input.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Pico 5 Pro Max looks like a dream hybrid headset : it is a standalone device with eye tracking and passthrough, and it also has the DisplayPort connection that makes it work like a true tethered headset when connected to a PC. of our revenues with Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Virtual Desktop now supports Quest Pro's recently added tongue tracking capability. Quest Pro has supported eye tracking and face tracking since launch, but it didn't include your tongue until December. Previously Virtual Desktop only forwarded face and eye tracking to VRChat specifically.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Varjo’s professional-grade headset features retina-grade resolution and eye-tracking functionality. Combined with the headsets integrated eye-tracking functionality, users can supposedly expect lifelike virtual content featuring levels of detail not currently offered by other major providers. FOV: 87 Degrees.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

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. Project Falcon , as this new demo is called, is an on-rails first-person shooter that uses eye-tracking as an aiming system for noisy machine guns and explosive rockets.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Each team had two HTC Vive Pro Eye’s to play with – the company’s latest enterprise-focused headset – meaning eye-tracking needed to feature in some way. 2nd Place – Munch Mania – A roomscale videogame which used the lip tracking module. Best Audio Prize – An Eye Mosity ?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Making some calculations, it is possible to estimate that the per-eye resolution is around 2064×2208, a value that was leaked a few months ago from some data miner (Samulia). Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 19, 2023

0:00 / 0:07 1× Quest Pro's original face tracking, without tongue. In version 60 of its SDKs for Unity and native code, Meta has released a new version of its face tracking OpenXR extension which now includes the tongue too. 0:00 / 0:09 1× korejan demonstrating Quest Pro tongue tracking via their VRFCT module.

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Upload VR

JULY 5, 2023

You can try Apple Vision Pro's eye tracking based interface on your Quest Pro with this sideloadable recreation. Supernova Technologies built the recreation with its Nova UI framework for Unity to promote the middleware. Keep in mind it won't work on Quest 2 or Quest 3, since those headsets don't have eye tracking.

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR working group includes all the major companies in the industry, including Meta, Pico, HTC, Valve, Varjo, and Unity - but notably not Apple. Local Floor (promoted from XR_EXT_local_floor), adding a third LOCAL_FLOOR tracking coordinate space type in addition to the existing LOCAL and STAGE. The OpenXR 1.0 Further, OpenXR 1.1

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Modular systems for adjusting hand-tracking functions such as pose recognition and velocity tracking. Mutiple ActiveStates to direct functions and touchable interfaces on Unity Technologies’ user interface (UI), along with PointableCanvas additions.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022. There are even tools available with built-in hand and eye tracking. The Unity software ecosystem makes it easy to create 3D solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

The headset should be operated through the use of hand tracking and eye tracking , exactly like the Vision Pro. Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 21, 2021

SteamVR Tracking 1.0 2x eye-tracking. IPD & Eye-tracking. Varjo Aero includes the company’s 200Hz eye-tracking solution which is paired with an automatic motor-driven physical IPD adjustment that ranges from 57–73mm. IPD Adjustment Range. Connectors. breakout box (USB-A 3.0, Cable Length.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The headset was first revealed earlier this year and said to include Snapdragon XR2, eye-tracking, and novel optics. Lynx is aiming to support OpenXR and Unity as a development environment (ostensibly Unreal Engine 4 would work equally well once OpenXR implementations are tested and complete). Image courtesy Lynx.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

New Software VisionLib : SDK with super impressive tracking on 3D objects (ready for Unity as well). link] New Hardware Pico Neo 2 eye : eye tracking, vr and ar, hand tracking. XR Directory : open-sourced free directory of established companies in the field (with over 1M$ of investment or annual revenue).

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2018

Edgar Martín-Blas, CEO of Virtual Voyagers , told VRScout he’s been excited about the capabilities of eye-tracking, hand-tracking, nine hand gesture recognition, and “the possibility of controlling the content with a mobile app.”. One developer we spoke with has been eagerly exploring the SDK to see what’s possible.

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Upload VR

MARCH 28, 2024

Alongside new adaptive trigger functionality when using and levitating ranged weapons, Hellsweeper VR on PSVR 2 now supports eye tracking through dynamic foveated rendering. Mixed Realms states this took six months to implement. "To

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

When I wrote my post about CES 2018 , I briefly talked about a headset called LooxidVR, able to “read the emotions” of the user by employing a combination of EEG sensors and eye tracking. LooxidVR enables them to collect the user’s eye and brain data simultaneously during a VR experience. What is Looxid Labs?

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2022

The headset-BCI combo is said include SDKs with ready-to-use building blocks for accessing the sensor data inside of Unity, Python, and several other common development environments. SteamVR Tracking 1.0 2x eye-tracking. IPD Adjustment Range. Connectors. breakout box (USB-A 3.0, DisplayPort 1.4). Cable Length. Microphone.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

While tech giants continue to invest in and acquire eye-tracking firms like Eye Tribe , BinaryVR is pushing on with its facial tracking solution for VR. Developer kits cost $349 and also come with a Unity plugin SDK. Tagged with: binaryvr , Facial tracking , htc vive , oculus rift.

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Upload VR

JUNE 7, 2023

Rec Room is made with the Unity engine, which Apple Vision supports via "layering" onto its own RealityKit engine. tech art of Rec Room's upcoming hand tracking support Apple Vision Pro doesn't have tracked controllers, instead opting for hand tracking and eye tracking for input.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2020

Its platform also allows them to do it at scale thanks to its Unity and Unreal-compatible SDK, which essentially lets game developers forgo popups and other interstitials that may otherwise ruin the gaming experience. While putting ads in games is nothing groundbreaking, Admix says it’s co-opting traditional ad-buying techniques.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Unity Partnerships and Further Updates At the Unite 2023 event, Unity offered its full support for the Apple Vision Pro’s PolySpatial tool, essential for developing spatial experiences on the headset’s Shared Space platform.

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