The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Last week at a dedicated Vive X event, Chinese company 7Invensun has presented one of the most interesting eye tracking accessories to date. 7Invensun is one of the worldwide leaders for what concerns eye tracking. The two parts of the Droolon F1 eye tracking device (Image by 7Invensun).

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MAY 11, 2021

A report from UploadVR , citing “multiple sources,” claims that Sony’s next-gen PlayStation VR 2 headset will bring a big jump in resolution, along with eye-tracking, IPD adjustment, and even head-mounted haptics. Here’s the key info claimed in the report: 4.1MP (2,000 × 2,040) per-eye resolution.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2020

Additionally, the group has added new extensions to the standard to support hand-tracking and eye-tracking. SEE ALSO Oculus Now Accepting OpenXR Apps on Quest & Rift, a Big Step for Cross-platform Development. The announcements mean that OpenXR is finally ready to be rolled out widely across the XR industry. .”

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JUNE 27, 2017

A report from MacRumors provides compelling evidence that Apple has quietly acquired SMI, also known as SensoMotoric Instruments, a company specializing in eye-tracking technology. German-based SMI has specialized in eye-tracking since its founding in 1991.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today at HTC’s Vive Developer Meeting in Beijing and its simultaneous Shanghai-based Vive Ecosystem Conference, Chinese eye-tracking startup 7invensun debuted a new eye-tracking module that’s not only affordable at $150 (¥1100 RMB), but is designed to support all of HTC’s VR headsets, past and present.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2017

ARM Holdings and Sensormotoric Instruments (SMI) are teaming up at GDC to showcase the potential of powerful mobile GPUs, eye-tracking and foveated rendering technologies in a new made-for-VR demo that will debut at GDC next week. SEE ALSO Hands On: SMI's Gear VR Eye Tracking is Accurate, Fast and Lightweight.

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Road to VR

MAY 9, 2018

Eye-tracking—the ability to quickly and precisely measure the direction a user is looking while inside of a VR headset—is often talked about within the context of foveated rendering, with the hopes that it could reduce the performance requirements of VR. 7invensun is selling the aGlass eye-tracking development kit for Vive headsets.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

million and unlocking free eye-tracking module for every one of their backers who chose a VR headset funding tier. According to an update posted to the Pimax Kickstarter page , all backers will get a free eye-tracking module as a part of the $3 million stretch goal. image courtesy Pimax.

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VRScout

MARCH 8, 2021

“One of the things that I’m really excited about for future versions is getting eye tracking and face tracking in.” A proprietary social experience designed specifically for Oculus Quest headsets, Facebook Horizon was originally scheduled to launch in early 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Probably if I had tested it at the Oculus Quest 2 times, I would be here saying that the passthrough of the Varjo is the best I have ever tried. Basically, the eye tracking 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.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2018

Oculus today at F8 overviewed some of the latest VR technology that they’d been working on internally. Among the projects mentioned is the ‘Half Dome’ prototype, a Rift-like headset with a 140 degree field of view, varifocal displays, and what appears to be eye-tracking. Image courtesy Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In China I met the company 7Invensun , that is a worldwide leader for what concerns eye tracking. Being them very kind, they gave me as a gift an aGlass DK II eye tracking add on for HTC Vive and I used it to experiment with eye tracking interfaces. aGlass DK II box on top of HTC Vive one. The device.

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JANUARY 10, 2025

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.

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VRScout

JUNE 20, 2019

Facebook’s sixth annual Oculus Connect will take place September 25th & 26th at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA, introducing developers, content creators, and other VR fanatics to the latest advancements made by the Oculus team. Image Credit: Facebook / Oculus. Image Credit: Facebook / Oculus.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Oculus Research, the company’s R&D division, recently published a paper that goes deeper into their eye tracking-assisted, multi-focal display tech, detailing the creation of something they dub a “perceptual” testbed. Oculus Research’s perceptual testbed goes a few steps further however.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2020

The time has come for me to review the Pico Neo 2 Eye , the Chinese competitor of the Oculus Quest (that has been kindly sent to me from Pico)! Discover with me everything about it and especially how does it compare with the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. Pico Neo 2 Eye Video Review. Front side of the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2020

These days we have had various leaks about a new upcoming Oculus Quest , with also renders and photos shared by the famous leaker Walking Cat. Oculus is going to release a new Oculus Quest. Various rumors and leaks in the past weeks hinted to an upcoming release of a new Oculus Quest headset. The comfort enigma.

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Road to VR

MAY 3, 2018

Besides the fact that Oculus is undoubtedly working on a second flagship PC VR headset, nothing is known about it thus far. ” In response, Mitchell had this to say: “[Maria Fernandez Guajardo, Head of Product Management, Core Tech at Oculus] covered a bunch of areas of long term research for us. Image courtesy Facebook.

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MARCH 16, 2019

According to a report by UploadVR , citing emails sent from Facebook to Oculus developers, the rumored Rift S headsets will be revealed next week at GDC. Rift S was first brought to light in a TechCrunch report last year about the leadership shakeup at Oculus and purported shifting product plans. Image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

JULY 1, 2021

.” 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.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, is here once again. Now in its fifth year, Oculus is expected to update the world on what’s next from in VR content and hardware. Taking place this week on the 26th & 27th, Oculus Connect 5 will be hosted in San Jose, CA. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Oculus co-founder and Facebook’s head of PC VR Brendan Iribe is leaving the company amidst a TechCrunch report that Facebook cancelled its second iteration of Rift. SEE ALSO Oculus Co-founder Departs Facebook Amidst Rumor of Rift 2 Cancellation. Image courtesy Facebook.

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Upload VR

JULY 5, 2024

Mare, the ICO-inspired VR puzzle adventure, has optional eye tracking only controls in its upcoming PSVR 2 port. Featuring puzzles and exploration across an eight-chapter adventure, the newly announced PSVR 2 port includes a "full eye tracking only gameplay option," demonstrated in the trailer below.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Image courtesy Oculus. His predictions for headset capabilities in the year 2021 were 4K × 4K resolution per-eye, a 140 degree field of view, and variable depth of focus. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus. Optics & Displays. Controllers & Input.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 10, 2022

They had no new hardware for me to review, but they let me have a test with a Neo 3 Pro Eye ( Pico Neo 3 with Tobii eye-tracking incorporated) and showed me a few demos while they explained to me me the importance of eye-tracking. With eye tracking, the avatar felt of course more natural. The secret?

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 30, 2024

added eye tracked navigation. Wolvic is the open-source successor to Firefox Reality , which was a web browser for early standalone headsets like Oculus Go, the original Oculus Quest, Vive Focus, and HoloLens 2. s major feature was eye tracked navigation. Wolvic Chromium 1.1 What Is Wolvic? Update 1.0's

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Upload VR

JULY 3, 2024

The Quest v67 update lets you freely position 2D windows, improves Quest Pro's eye tracking, lets Quest 3 scan Wi-Fi QR Codes, and more. Quest Pro Eye Tracking Improved Quest Pro was the first consumer standalone VR headset to ship with integrated eye tracking, and remains the only shipped Oculus or Meta headset with eye tracking.

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VRScout

AUGUST 3, 2021

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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2019

But if we compare it with the other premium headsets on the market (like XTAL, StarVR or Varjo ), we notice that it lacks a very important feature: eye tracking. Foveated rendering in an experience produced by HTC together with NVIDIA for BMW on the Vive Pro Eye (Image by HTC Vive).

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JUNE 29, 2023

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey weighed in on his thoughts, and coming from one of the main figures who kicked off the VR revolution of today, it means something. Vision Pro is set to ship without any sort of VR motion controller, which means developers will need to target hand and eye-tracking as the primary input methods.

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MARCH 21, 2018

Oculus has revealed that the standalone, entry-level mobile VR headset Oculus Go will support refresh rates up to 72Hz and will make use of fixed foveated rendering. One of the many snippets of news was more detail on how the company’s upcoming mobile, standalone VR headset Oculus Go handles rendering and on its display.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2020

Enterprise-level Tobii eye-tracking and foveated rendering at an affordable price. The newly launched Neo 2 & Neo 2 Eye headsets from Pico Interactive are lightweight, untethered, deliver 4K, and look most like a beefed-up Oculus Quest. compatibility.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

Eye tracking inserts around the lenses of the Pico Neo 3 Eye (Image by Pico). Exactly as with the Neo 2 line, t here is also an “Eye” variant, that features eye-tracking, a feature that is very appreciated in enterprise environments. Pico Neo 3 Pro announced in the West.

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JUNE 15, 2020

The Pico Neo 2 Eye is a standalone VR headset built for business. Going by the hardware specifications, it is an upgrade in many areas compared to the Oculus Quest. Plus, it has some unique features too, like electromagnetic tracking, wireless SteamVR streaming, and integrated eye-tracking. Eye-Tracking.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Proton Pulse , originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week. Practically untouched from its original head-tracked input scheme, the game marks a soft reset in XR game development as developers assess how to approach Vision Pro’s lack of controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Displays : Dual Mini LED LCD; 2880 x 2720 px per eye Refresh rate : 90 Hz Optics : Custom-made variable resolution aspheric lenses with 35 PPD peak fidelity Field of View : Horizontal: 115°, Diagonal: 134° at 12 mm eye relief Interpupillary Distance : Automatic IPD adjustment with motor, Supported IPD range: 57–73 mm Audio : 3.5

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