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Google is reportedly set to acquire Canada-based eye-tracking startup AdHawk Microsystems Inc. The deal is said to include $15 million in future payments based on the eye-tracking company reaching performance targets. something that would strengthen the company’s ongoing foray into XR headsets and glasses.
Image courtesy ‘IceManDBB’ While fixed foveated rendering is available to all PC VR headset users who opt-in to the beta update today, there’s no word on when to expect dynamic foveated rendering, which allows users with eye-tracking even more performance gains.
The company does eyetracking using IR LEDs to light up the eyes and IR Cameras to grab the images of the eyes from which an algorithm detects the orientation of the pupils. Glasses frames with eyetracking integrated. One other thing that I was shown was a little device to do eyetracking for microscopes.
Pimax announced and opened preorders for Dream Air, a tethered PC VR headset it says has 4K micro-OLED panels, eyetracking, inside-out tracking, and a weight of less than 200g. 0:00 / 0:59 1 What Is Pimax?
Of course, this focus group testing doesn't in any way guarantee that either Quest 4 model will actually have face or eyetracking. Meta's only headset to date with either eyetracking or face tracking was Quest Pro, which sold very poorly at its $1500 launch price and had to be cut to $1000 just four months later.
According to Luna's source, the headset is codenamed Tarius, will have face and eyetracking, and will use either QD-LCD panels with local dimming or micro-OLED displays. It is planned to include EyeTracking and Face Tracking. NEW: Details on the upcoming ASUS ROG VR headset running Meta Horizon OS.
The Classic Edition was previously its entry level, priced at 1,900 (~$1,980 USD), which didn’t include eye-tracking. Now the company’s cheapest VR1 is the Visionary Edition, which does include eye-tracking, and is priced at 2,499 (~$2,600 USD). Notably, these prices don’t include local tax.
Bigscreen Beyond 2 starts shipping next month with significantly upgraded & adjustable lenses, and Beyond 2e is coming in May with eyetracking. Further, Bigscreen says its eyetracking runs efficiently on your GPU, in contrast to other PC VR eyetracking solutions which tax your CPU.
A software engineer managed to get PlayStation VR2's eyetracking working on PC, though they caution that it's currently "extremely WIP" and lacks calibration. Now, their latest project aims to bring PlayStation VR2's eyetracking to PC. They note that they are testing going crosseyed here.
XR hand and eyetracking technologies are becoming increasingly valuable for that last use case. Sensors that trackeye, hand and body movements , as well as surroundings arent just making it easier for professionals to interact with digital content without controllers.
The same developer who got PlayStation VR2's eyetracking working on PC now has HDR partially working too. Earlier this month a developer who goes by the handle whatdahopper managed to get PlayStation VR2's eyetracking working on PC.
Additionally, it comes with four front-facing tracking cameras and infrared floodlight for illuminated hand tracking. Packing in Vive XR Elite’s Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 chipset, Vive Focus Vision comes with built-in eye-tracking—later added an optional module on XR Elite which also tracks the user’s mouth.
Google is in "final talks" to acquire AdHawk, a startup that makes ultra-low-power eyetracking tech for headsets and glasses, Bloomberg reports. The tracking is done using computer vision algorithms that analyze each frame and output the size and position of your pupil. AdHawk's sensor module.
Inseye has "paused" Lumi, the Quest 2 & 3 eyetracking addon it planned to sell, to focus on bringing the technology to smart glasses instead. Meanwhile, in January a Japanese engineer said he's making his own face & eyetracking addon for Quest 3, but significant concerns were raised about the project.
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A Japanese engineer says he's making a face & eyetracking addon for Quest 3, but significant concerns have been raised about the project. Vlugin calls its apparent product EF Tracker, and claims it will be an accessory for Meta Quest 3 that adds both eyetracking and face tracking via three cameras and a series of infrared LEDs.
As the day went on, the company released more info on sales performance of Beyond 2 and its eye-tracking variant, Beyond 2e. Moreover, Beyond 2 packs in a new pancake lens design, offering up a wider 116-degree diagonal FOV, an adjustable IPD mechanism, and a lighter 107g design, with the 2e model adding AI-powered eye-tracking.
Like the first-gen device, Gen 2 doesn’t include displays of any type, though it now houses an upgraded sensor suite, including an RGB camera, position-tracking cameras, eye-tracking cameras, spatial microphones, IMUs, barometer, magnetometer, GNSS, and custom Meta silicon.
Unlike the ‘e’ naming scheme seen in Apple’s recent iPhone 16e, the ‘e’ in Beyond 2e denotes the inclusion of eye-tracking. and DSC required) CPU : Quad-core Intel or AMD Ports : 1 DisplayPort 1.4,
Researchers at Cornell University have developed ‘MouseGoggles’, a miniature VR headset with eye-tracking for mice, which was used to study complex behaviors during neural recordings. Traditional small-animal VR systems have been limited by their size, immersivity, and lack of advanced features such as eye-tracking.
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I also didn’t see any artifact due to the eyetracking at work to provide foveated rendering, so that to stream in high quality only a specific region of my visuals. Visually, the streaming was quite good, though : I could play the game and enjoy it with no degradation in resolution or such.
Aria Gen 2 adds head tracking, eyetracking, hand tracking, and audio to Meta's research glasses, and it's already being tested to help vision impaired people navigate indoors. Meta's Aria glasses are not products, nor are they prototypes of future products. But none of these sensors were processed on-device.
And though our hands-on with the headset exclusively used hand-tracking and eye-tracking input, the company says it’s also making first-party motion controllers which will be natively supported as part of Android XR. Samsung’s ‘Project Moohan’ headset will be the first to ship with Android XR next year.
Basically, the eyetracking of the headset drives the autofocus of the 20 MP passthrough cameras so that the cameras focus exactly on the object the eyes want to focus on. The Varjo XR-4 Focal Edition is one of the models of Varjo XR-4 and it features an incredibly crisp passthrough thanks to the Autofocus feature.
The headset features a 110-degree field-of-view (14-degrees larger than the original PS VR) as well as foveated rendering , a technique in which eye-tracking technology is used to reduce the rendering workload by decreasing the quality of images outside the user peripheral vision. Speaking of eye-tracking… Eye-Tracking.
Successive rumors maintainDeckardmay include PC VR wireless streaming capabilities, eye-tracking, as well as passthrough AR features, potentially putting it in competition with Meta Quest and/or Apple Vision Pro.
Apple’s $3,500 mixed reality headset notably shipped without motion controllers, which has forced developers to focus on either adapting existing XR apps to Vision Pro’s hand and eye-tracking capabilities, or starting new projects from the ground-up.
So no demos beyond those early, closed door hands-ons allowed last month.Check out the video below, courtesy of The Verge : Drawing design and software cues from Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro, the device features a rigid strap, eye-tracking, pancake lenses, and ergonomic design, which wethought was pretty close to Quest Pro in terms of comfort.
Play For Dream MR has packed in a laundry list of modern XR features, including a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset running Android 15,dual 3,840 3,552 micro-OLED displays (90Hz), eye-tracking, auto IPD adjustment, wired and wireless PC streaming, and also a Quest Pro-inspired rear-mounted battery and Touch-style controllers.
In October 2023, Meta released Quest 3, which housed much of the tech seen in Quest Prominus face and eye-tracking, and at the starting price of $499. To complicate matters, high initial pricing of Quest Pro put a strain on developers, which resulted in very few compelling MR experiences out of the gate.
Other features of the Crystal Super include QLED panels with 3840 x 3840 pixels per eye, 120-degree horizontal field of view and glass aspheric lenses with 99 percent light transmission and a brightness of 280 Nits. and 100 local dimming zones per eye enable the contrasts and blacks to be close to micro-OLED levels. Local Dimming 2.0
It’s an interesting idea considering the challenge of fitting a headset comfortably; many users want to crank their headset tight to their face so it won’t move, but the most comfortable way to use a headset is to balance tightness with stability.
A microlens-array light field display mounted to the front of the headset allows those out of headset to view a 3D rendered model of the users’ eyes brought to life in real-time thanks to built-in eye-tracking technology.
EyeSight, Environments, and eye-tracking, oh my! Anytime someone approaches the headset while it’s being worn, the device uses eye-tracking technology to generate a 3D replica of your eyes. Credit: Apple Eye-TrackingEye-tracking technology powers a number of exciting features on Apple Vision Pro.
That said, the company has shared a list of specs for the device, revealing a handful of exciting features like eye-tracking, passthrough view, and headset haptics. 4 embedded cameras for headset and controller tracking? IR camera for eyetracking per eye Feedback? with PS5 – USB Type-C® Audio?
The 30-minute experience is slated to serve up eye-tracked interactions that lets the player change perspectives by making eye contact with characters, animals, and objects. We’ve reached out to the studio to clarify this, and will update this piece when/if we know more.
Zooming the lenses of the picture it is also possible to see the tracking rings of the eye-tracking sensors installed on the device. They are typical of eye-tracking add-ons. It has many features that the community was requesting on a headset: eye-tracking, HDR, comfort, ergonomic controllers, improved haptics.
In case you missed the news you check out the specs, price and launch schedule here Beyond 2 comes in two flavors, one with eye-tracking (Beyond 2e) and one without (Beyond 2), priced at$1,019 and $1,219 respectively.
.” Building off the technology featured in the XR-1, the XR-2 features an improved resolution (5760 × 2880) and FOV (157-degrees diagonally) as well as additional upgrades such as eye-tracking. Like the XR-2, the headset is controlled using a pair of motion controllers similar in size and shape to the Oculus Touch controllers.
Defining User Tracking At its simplest, user tracking refers to a suite of technologies that capture and interpret data in XR immersive workspaces. Some companies are even experimenting with tracking rings, EMG-powered wristbands, and external sensors that can monitor movement, behavior, and even heart rate with incredible precision.
Notably, Apple launched Vision Pro in February 2024 without the addition of controllers, relying instead on its integrated hand and eye-tracking capabilitiesan extension of the headset’s ethos as a general computing platform over the sort of game console ambitions of devices like Meta Quest.
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