VRScout
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
In January of 2017, FOVE, a Japanese VR startup, released the first eye-tracking VR headset. By monitoring eye signals, immersive hardware supports software programs that recognize and respond to the user with increased sensitivity. It could be the beginning of a truly immersive virtual experience. Industry Is Changing.
Slashgear
JANUARY 4, 2017
If you’re one of the nearly 1,500 people who backed the eye-tracking FOVE 0 VR headset on Kickstarter last year, then good news: FOVE has announced that the headset will begin shipping out to its first customers later this month. … Continue reading.
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Road to VR
MAY 9, 2018
Companies like Tobii are offering eye-tracking hardware and software to manufacturers and developers; Qualcomm is now offering Tobii’s solution in their VRDK headset. Fove is selling a development kit of their VR headset with inbuilt eye-tracking. The hardware is becoming increasingly available to developers and researchers.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 6, 2017
This is what it took for me to realize just how empowering eye tracking will be for VR software designers. In fact, all the technologies mentioned in this post are being distributed to select developers as kits so they can start to build software around these upcoming advancements. FOVE is distributing a eye-tracking headset too.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
As reported by Tom’s Hardware , SMI partnered with Valve to integrate its eye-tracking tech into OpenVR SDK and API, which will allow other companies to implement support into their VR software. Not only that, but the pair have also successfully integrated SMI’s tech into select HTC Vive units.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
RAZER: ZVENTURES VC FUND – Starting as a hardware company and evolving into a software company as well, Razer is now also growing into an investing company. FOVE, THE EYE-TRACKING HMD: FINAL SPECS AND PRE-ORDER DATES. …and more.
AllThingsVR
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Oculus confirms to me that this is an official acquisition.The startup has developed a $99 eye tracking device developer kits for computers, and software that can bring gaze-based interfaces to smartphones and potentially virtual reality headsets.
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