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‘Stranger Things VR’ Studio’s Next Project ‘Face Jumping’ Looks Like Another Patently Weird VR Experience

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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.

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SyncThink Closes $3.5 Million Series A Funding to Further Develop VR-based Concussion Detection

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SyncThink, a Berkeley-based eye-tracking and brain firm, announced the closing of a $3.5 The company expects to use the funds to continue development on their EYE-SYNC technology, a VR-based eye-tracking technology to help diagnose concussions on the playing field. image courtesy SyncThink. .”

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Immersed Says It Will Publicly Demo Visor In September

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The Visor demos will be given at Immersed IRL, the company's own event at the Zach Theatre in Austin, Texas on September 19. The startup also reveals it is using Tobii's eye tracking technology, the same used in PlayStation VR2. You can sign up to attend here. 0:00 / 0:53 1× Promotional video from Immersed.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

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Hello everyone from Austin, Texas, where I am attending the SXSW! I’m having fun, listening to interesting talks, meeting new people… basically everything I always do at these events!

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Hands-On: Immersed Demos Barely Functional Visor After Finally Unveiling Its Real Design

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Immersed covered the cost of my flights from the UK to its event in Texas, which made it possible for me to attend. Immersed says Visor features the XR2+ Gen 2 chipset , 4K micro-OLED displays, color passthrough, as well as eye tracking and hand tracking for a Vision Pro style gaze-and-pinch input system.

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Essential XR Events for Discovering New Innovations in 2022 and 2023

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Increasingly, we’re seeing new concepts emerge such as RT3D, hand and eye tracking, and 5G/edge computer rendering. March 10-19 th , 2023, Austin, Texas. Founded in Austin, Texas during 1987, SXSW brings creatives together from all over the globe, where they can network, discover, learn, and innovate.

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Google Releases AR Geospatial Creator for Unity

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Both headsets will offer massive hand and eye-tracking capabilities, spatial audio, and three and six degrees of flight (3DoF/ 6DoF). Using the firm’s geolocation software developer kits (SDKs), Niantic has created numerous sustainability programmes at UT Austin’s Texas Immersive Institute.

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