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FOVE Begins Shipping $599 Eye-Tracking Headset this Month

Road to VR

Eye-tracking is oft called the ‘next generation technology’ for VR headsets—lest we forget FOVE , the creators of the world’s first commercially available eye-tracking VR headset, the aptly named FOVE 0. The company has recently announced that they’ll begin shipping FOVE 0 around the world starting January 2017.

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

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AR and VR are gearing up for a giant leap forward thanks to advancements in eye-tracking technology. Despite all the activity, AR/VR hardware remains relatively crude. In January of 2017, FOVE, a Japanese VR startup, released the first eye-tracking VR headset. for AR/VR headsets. Industry Is Changing.

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CES 2017 VR And AR News Roundup: Everything You Might Have Missed

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

At UploadVR we’re dedicated to addressing the VR and AR industries as thoroughly as we can, which often means a torrential downpour of coverage. Tactai Gets In Touch With Ericsson For AR and VR ‘Dynamic Tactile Wave’ Tech [ Link ]. ODG Debuts Two New AR Glasses Aimed At Consumer Market [ Link ].

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

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Eye controls are the future for immersive tech, but there are other use cases for eye tracking too. Companies like FOVE are having big breakthroughs using eye tracking to enhance social interaction in VR and foveated rendering techniques could make VR/AR more processor efficient than ever.

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Eye-tracking is a Game Changer for VR That Goes Far Beyond Foveated Rendering

Road to VR

Companies like Tobii are offering eye-tracking hardware and software to manufacturers and developers; Qualcomm is now offering Tobii’s solution in their VRDK headset. Fove is selling a development kit of their VR headset with inbuilt eye-tracking. In a basic AR or VR headset, there’s a display (which is, let’s say, 3?

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Hands-on: HoloLens 2 is a More Than Just a Larger Field of View

Road to VR

Yesterday at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens 2, the company’s next iteration of its enterprise-focused standalone AR headset. That’s the question that ran through my mind for my half-hour session strapped into the AR headset. That’s all well and good, but is the HoloLens 2 hardware truly a ‘2.0’

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River Ecosystem is more than just Mike Rothenberg. It's a f **g ecosystem of hungry innovators and tech talents looking to prove themselves. Check out just a few.

Cats and VR

Both will oversee the selection process for the Fall 2017 class of River Accelerator, an innovative startup incubation program focused on indentifying and fostering frontier technologies such as VR/AR, AI, machine learning, computer vision, drones, 3D printing, and more.

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