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FOVE Eye-tracking Headset Gets Final Specs and Pre-order Date

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FOVE has announced that their first eye-tracking VR headset, the FOVE 0, will open for pre-orders on November 2nd, and has also released the final specifications of the device. Much like Oculus, FOVE began as a successful Kickstarter which raised $480,000 , nearly twice its goal, back in mid-2015. FOVE 0 Specifications.

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

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In January of 2017, FOVE, a Japanese VR startup, released the first eye-tracking VR headset. UBI Research expects total shipments to exceed 65 million units by 2021 and International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts a five-year compound annual growth rate of 108.3% It could be the beginning of a truly immersive virtual experience.

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

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Research about this rapid decline was conducted and issued by iiMedia Research, a third-party data collector and analyst of technological digital platforms. And even the ones still in the game—including AlfaReal, Miido, and Storm Magic Mirror—have begun downsizing and delaying salary payments to employees.

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Impressive Social VR Demo Combines Mouth and Eye Tracking

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Face and Communication Entertainment, or FACE, is a project from a Colopl company called 360ch that is building a social VR demo collaborating with BinaryVR, Facerig, and FOVE. The FOVE headset, which we covered recently during GDC , provides an eye-tracking solution. Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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Privacy in VR Is Complicated and It’ll Take the Entire VR Community to Figure It Out

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He works at FOVE which is making a VR headset with eye-tracking, but wanted to speak to me on his own behalf about some of the deeper philosophical questions and conceptual frameworks around the types of intimate data that will become available to VR headsets. What type of transparency and controls should users expect from companies?

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

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Fove is selling a development kit of their VR headset with inbuilt eye-tracking. When a friend puts on the headset, the system can load their preferences and saved data. Instead, foveated displays would move a smaller, pixel-dense display to wherever the user is looking based on eye-tracking data.

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SMI Talks Eye Tracking VR Applications & Foveated Rendering

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It’s really an imperceptible difference that would allow mobile technologies to render higher resolution scenes, or potentially help make it more feasible to wirelessly transfer data to a desktop VR HMD. See Also: FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.