Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

HTC today announced it’s releasing both facial and eye-tracking units for its Vive Focus 3 standalone VR headset. ” The unit, which attaches to the headset’s USB-C port, is built around a mono tracking camera clocked at 60Hz. Image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy HTC.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The VR-1 also includes custom-made eye-tracking which the company claims delivers “unmatched precision and accuracy” in a stereo eye-tracking solution. SteamVR Tracking 2.0 Image courtesy Varjo. An SDK is also available for integration into custom 3D engines.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. All VR interfaces will change with the introduction of eye tracking, becoming more intuitive. Let’s talk a bit about eye tracking. Yes, it is! Hello 7Invensun!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This includes everything from hand and eye tracking technology, optimized visual fidelity via foveated rendering, an ultra-wide 115-degree field-of-view, and “human-eye resolution” just to name a few. The VR-3 also features integrated 6DoF inside-out tracking, removing the need for the SteamVR base stations.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. How Does Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity Work? Currently, Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity offers visualisations of more than 2,500 cities in 49 nations.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

FOVE, the company behind the eponymous eye-tracking VR headset, today announced that they will be showing off a new industrial design at both Comic-Con and SIGGRAPH 2016 where attendees will have a chance to demo the new headset design themselves. Previous FOVE design | See Also: FOVE’s Eye-tracking VR Headset Was the Next Best at CES.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Pico 5 Pro Max looks like a dream hybrid headset : it is a standalone device with eye tracking and passthrough, and it also has the DisplayPort connection that makes it work like a true tethered headset when connected to a PC. of our revenues with Unity. And this 2.5%

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

When the UK-based VR studio, Rewind, asked me if I wanted to come and see a demo of its eye-tracking tech demo for the upcoming FOVE 0 headset, I was intrigued. Project Falcon , as this new demo is called, is an on-rails first-person shooter that uses eye-tracking as an aiming system for noisy machine guns and explosive rockets.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

EYE TRACKING. POSITIONAL TRACKING. Unity, Unreal and other game engines plugins. FIELD OF VIEW. 180° horizontal, 90° vertical. ADVANCED FEATURES. Foveated Rendering, Timewarp. WEIGHT (without headstrap). 600 g / 21 oz. DIMENSIONS (headset only). 293x123x113 mm / 11.53×4.84×4.44 Auto IPD – range 60-76 mm.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

The headset should be operated through the use of hand tracking and eye tracking , exactly like the Vision Pro. Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The LEDs for eye tracking are installed directly on the lenses as if they were hair cluttering it and they are not noticeable by the eye. He said the company is now in a good financial situation and is working on its next iteration of the Unreal Engine game engine.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2018

Edgar Martín-Blas, CEO of Virtual Voyagers , told VRScout he’s been excited about the capabilities of eye-tracking, hand-tracking, nine hand gesture recognition, and “the possibility of controlling the content with a mobile app.”. One developer we spoke with has been eagerly exploring the SDK to see what’s possible.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2020

Its platform also allows them to do it at scale thanks to its Unity and Unreal-compatible SDK, which essentially lets game developers forgo popups and other interstitials that may otherwise ruin the gaming experience. While putting ads in games is nothing groundbreaking, Admix says it’s co-opting traditional ad-buying techniques.

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Road to VR

APRIL 7, 2021

Eye-tracking API. HP says the Omnicept features are supported across both Unity and Unreal Engine. The post Reverb G2 Omnicept, with Eye, Mouth, & Heart Rate Sensors, Priced at $1,250 for May Launch appeared first on Road to VR. Free for educational use (2% revenue share for profit). 2% revenue share.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The headset was first revealed earlier this year and said to include Snapdragon XR2, eye-tracking, and novel optics. Lynx is aiming to support OpenXR and Unity as a development environment (ostensibly Unreal Engine 4 would work equally well once OpenXR implementations are tested and complete). Image courtesy Lynx.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

Stereo with Foveated Rendering: provides a Primary View Configuration to realize eye-tracked foveated rendering or fixed foveated rendering for XR headsets across multiple graphics rendering APIs. The original vendor extension has been adopted natively in Unity, Unreal, and recently by NVIDIA Omniverse.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Thanks to the AR2 Gen 1, eye tracking will now have supported security features such as iris authentication, which could open up new ways for people to unlock their devices and introduce other features to improve your AR experience. Hand-tracking Works with Snapdragon Spaces (Unity/Unreal) 2.5X

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 21, 2021

SteamVR Tracking 1.0 2x eye-tracking. IPD & Eye-tracking. Varjo Aero includes the company’s 200Hz eye-tracking solution which is paired with an automatic motor-driven physical IPD adjustment that ranges from 57–73mm. IPD Adjustment Range. Connectors. breakout box (USB-A 3.0, Cable Length.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Companies can use engines from companies like Unity to recreate digital “twins” of products, buildings, and other items, combined with information from various data sources. Hand-Eye Tracking. As such, many XR innovators are now investing more heavily in hand and eye tracking.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Called the ‘Bionic’ display, Varjo also includes stereo eye-tracking for supposed foveated rendering. ” Varjo prototypes are also being shipped with both Unreal and Unity plugins to enable content creation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration. The new stereo-foveated rendering improves eye-tracking features, and the feature is widespread – already finding a home on Unity, Unreal, and NVIDIA Omniverse.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 18, 2023

FORCE also designed its immersive training application on Unity, ready for Varjo distribution. Zoan created a digital twin of the opera stage using Unreal engine to provide a photorealistic and RT3D XR stage. The maritime simulation firm distributes its XR maritime training service on Varjo headsets to add depth and realism.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. The Swedish company has produced a number of eye-tracking solutions, including the Tobii Pro Glasses 3.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The presentation at Gamescom talked about your partnership with Unreal Engine for offering real-time RTX. What about Unity, instead? Will it be available also for Unity developers? In the previous link, there is, in fact, a reference saying that both Unreal Engine and Unity will implement DXR APIs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

It maintains all of the critical features of the company’s leading MR device, including phenomenal eye tracking, positional tracking, connectivity, and field of view.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. The Swedish company has produced a number of eye-tracking solutions, including the Tobii Pro Glasses 3.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

The SAO experience was created to welcome new users and teach them how to use Fove 0, the first commercially available VR headset with integrated eye-tracking. The company has since released their SDK which allows developers to integrate Fove support for projects built-in Unity, Unreal Engine, and CryEngine.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Quest’s ‘Body Tracking’ API isn’t what it looks and sounds like. Body Tracking API was released on Thursday as part of Movement SDK, which also includes Eye Tracking API and Face Tracking API for Quest Pro. These equations power all full-body VR avatars in apps today.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. What is interesting for us is the last line “adoption and support of ARKit features and future VR features into Unreal Engine by their XR team”. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games). Notice that Apple talks about “future VR features” that it is going to implement.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Their SceneExplorer tool translates the 3D geometry from a Unity or Unreal experience into a WebGL mesh that can be shared within a web browser. Cognitive VR is an VR analytics platform that has an impressive system for visualizing a player’s movements and gaze within a 3D representation of a VR experience.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

Precise eye-tracking. Eye-tracking data is collected by an integrated eye-tracking system used for debriefing and behaviour analysis. For inter-pupillary distance (IPD) correction, the eye-tracking system employs a one-dot calibration technique unique to it. 8K resolution and user comfort.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

People that preorder the game can have a discount Guardians Frontline , a game that is a bit of a mix between Starcraft and Halo, has been positively reviewed by Upload VR Upload has also reviewed Peaky Blinders , but in this case with a mixed opinion, because of many bugs happening here and there Bigscreen VR is releasing new avatars with arms, hands, (..)

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. Applications of Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality. Hand Tracked Controls: Design and Implementation for Serious VR.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2024

If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. In the latest release various improvements have been applied that provide more control over the density map used and allow for eye tracking to impact the density map and ensure quality rendering at the users focal point."

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