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Unlike the ‘e’ naming scheme seen in Apple’s recent iPhone 16e, the ‘e’ in Beyond 2e denotes the inclusion of eye-tracking. The company says the first batches are slated to launch in April, with an optional halo-style strap mount targeting a Q3 2025 release.
Bigscreen Beyond 2 starts shipping next month with significantly upgraded & adjustable lenses, and Beyond 2e is coming in May with eyetracking. UploadVR Ian Hamilton UploadVR's Ian Hamilton went hands-on with Bigscreen Beyond 2 at GDC 2025 this week, and you can read his impressions here.
7invensun for eyetracking addons). The second key year is 2025. In 2025, China wants to be the worldwide leader of Virtual Reality. If I remember well, some company in China was already experimenting on cloud rendering for the HTC Vive, so users could spare buying a VR-ready PC.
Bigscreen Beyond 2 Has Clearer, Wider, Adjustable Lenses And Optional EyeTracking Bigscreen Beyond 2 starts shipping next month with significantly upgraded & adjustable lenses, and Beyond 2e is coming in May with eyetracking too. grams of tiny sensors. UploadVR Ian Hamilton
Top news of the week (Image by Valve) Valve Deckard may be launched in 2025 for $1200 There is a new rumor about Valve Deckard, and for once it doesnt come from our usual source. Gabe Follower also maintains Valve is also set to ship games or demos that are already done specifically for Deckard.
Meta's CTO shot down the prospect of a Quest 3 eyetracking add-on. For eyetracking, you need to have this illumination all the way around the eyes - you're talking about replacing the eye cups. Vive Focus 3 is HTC’s standalone VR headset designed for businesses, priced at $1299.
More info Some developers are working to make PSVR 2 eyetracking work on PC A developer known with the handle whatdahopper has managed to make a prototype where he is able to read eye-tracking data from PSVR 2 on PC. If these people succeed in their intent, PSVR 2 could become the cheapest headset featuring eyetracking.
Play For Dream MR, the high-end standalone headset from China, was the big surprise of CES 2025. And after trying it, I found Play For Dream MR to be the most impressive XR hardware of any kind at CES 2025.
The integrated Tobii eye-tracking operating at 120hz made a noticeable difference to headset setup and optical comfort, as well as lowering the rendering workload in games compatible with dynamic foveated rendering. The eye-tracking system is provided by Tobii, who is the market leader in eye-tracking technology.
Currently known as "Project Moohan", the headset will feature "state-of-the-art displays", eyetracking, hand tracking, and an external tethered battery. Google Acquires Some Of HTC Vives Engineering Team Google is acquiring some of HTC Vives engineering team $250 million to accelerate the development of the Android XR platform.
When Qualcomm announced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 in January, a higher-end variant of the chipset used in Meta Quest 3, the company told UploadVR that it will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a fifth headset from a currently undisclosed company.
Waiting until now would mean that next VR game by Valve would come out in 2024–2025… do you really think they don’t want to make the ecosystem to grow now? If Microsoft will improve the WMR ecosystem with at least 4 tracking cameras, this can be an headset to look at with much attention. thanks Alessio for the tip!). Apple ARKit 3.5
Though various vendors offer enterprise-focused solutions, from HTC VIVE to PICO and beyond, Metas Quest ecosystem is arguably the most popular and versatile option for many companies. The company announced that is discontinuing the product at the beginning of 2025 although it is still available from some resellers.
The device is expected to hit the market in 2025. According to reports, the upcoming Samsung XR headset will feature a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a Time of Flight (ToF) sensor, voice commands, eyetracking, and hand tracking. However, HTC VIVE still believes that controllers hold value.
billion by 2025. Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 HTC VIVE VR The HTC seemingly new device, HTC VIVE Air VR, has recently made headlines after winning a design award from the World Design Guide. What seemed like a major leak of the new HTC consumer headset, turned out to be only a design concept.
Other than for niche applications requiring face or eyetracking, Quest Pro will be essentially obsolete. But there's a third company that had an idea Meta could copy: HTC. How can this be possible? Vive XR Elite has a rear strap battery by default.
report expects 75 percent of worldwide audiences and almost 100 percent of questioned smartphone users to turn into frequent AR users by 2025. Additionally, smart glasses are starting to implement hand and eye-tracking from specialists like Tobii to provide a hands-free user experience. A Snap Inc. Smartglasses.
AdHawk is a company whose product is an eye-tracking technology that does not employ optical cameras , but a system with micromirrors that scatter a laser ray on the eye. Even more concerning is that on Wefunder, the company claims that Our cash in hand is $1,589,997 , as of January 2025.
This is because the sales have not been enormous, and the content for it is not exploiting completely its new features (there are some cool uses of eyetracking, but that’s it). The rumors from Mark Gurman talk about a new cheaper version, which can have a more mass market appeal, forecasted for 2025-2026.
As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” Alan: Absolutely. ” LAH-bo? — VR kit is coming out in two weeks.
As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” Alan: Absolutely. ” LAH-bo? — VR kit is coming out in two weeks.
As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time." When you ask me my best experiences right now, I'm going to kind of. Alan: Absolutely.
More info (Snap announces new Spectacles glasses — Road To VR) More info (Snap announces new Spectacles glasses — Upload VR) More info (Ian Hamilton reviewing the device) More info (A comment on the launch video of the device) HTC announces Vive Focus Vision HTC has announced its latest standalone headset: the Vive Focus Vision.
Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. In my opinion (but this is pure speculation), HTC will tease a new Vive Focus this year , so that to answer to the Quest. Mobile headsets.
As I said before, apart from other tech giants, no one is going to challenge Facebook on its own terrain : Pico, HTC, HP, Pareal, Skyworth, Shadow Creator… all these companies are going to try offering something different. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. Will they succeed?
Considering that these 3D models are already available in SteamVR, we can speculate the launch of the full headset kit may happen in 2025. This seems to confirm that Valve is in the late stages of the productization of these controllers, meaning that the launch of the Deckard headset may be pretty close.
And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eyetracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.
And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eyetracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.
And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eyetracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.
Eyetracking. Eyetracking inserts around the lenses of the Pico Neo 3 Eye (Image by Pico). PSVR 2 will be the first consumer to implement eye-tracking and foveated rendering. Project Cambria should come with eyetracking too. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC).
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