FacebookTwitterLinkedinRedditSubscribe The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address Display manufacturer Kopin recently demonstrated its latest VR display and pancake optic which promises higher resolution and more affordability for future VR…
FacebookTwitterLinkedinRedditSubscribe The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address Epic Games, the company that makes Unreal Engine, recently released a substantial update to its MetaHuman character creation tool which for the…
I had a chance to do a demo of Eyefluence, which has created a new model for eye interactions within virtual and augmented reality apps. Rather than using the normal eye interaction paradigm of dwelling focus or explicitly winking to select, Eyefluence has developed a more comfortable way to trigger discrete actions with a selection…
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 The newly revealed design differs…
Veeso, a recently launched Kickstarter project, is aiming to be the first to market with a mobile VR headset that tracks your face’s movement; a system that uses head-mounted infrared cameras to track both your eyes and mouth for a greater sense of presence in virtual reality. The concept of using head-mounted cameras to track…
SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) is a Berlin based company involved in creating eye tracking solutions across several industries, and has been doing so for the past 25 years. At MWC I sat down with Christian Villwock, director of OEM sales, to learn more about the company’s eye tracking technology and to see for myself how it works with…
Foveated Rendering is one of the most discussed topics in Virtual Reality, promising topower the headsets of the future. Here, Tom Sengelaub of SensoMotoric Instrumentsgives his insight into the tech behind SMI’s latest project. Guest Writer Tom Sengelaub Tom Sengelaub is SMI’s Manager Solutions Delivery, leading a team that has pioneered the application of eye tracking…
Starbreeze, an “independent creator, publisher and distributor of high quality entertainment products” has announced that its StarVR headset will receive eye-tracking support as the result of a partnership between specialist in the field, Tobii. Starbreeze’s StarVR headset made quite the splash at this year’s E3 expo, first by dropping news of the headset’s monster specifications (dual…
FOVE is a Japanese technology company who are endeavoring to tackle an issue that will likely become a focus for the VR industry sooner than you think, eye-tracking in virtual reality. The company’s new headset employs gaze-detection for input, and today they launch their first Kickstarter campaign in order to get the hardware out into the community. We’ve…
Bigscreen has released the latest lineup of big-name movies premiering this month in its recently released ‘VR Cinema’ feature. A virtual reality movie theater always has felt like an obvious shoe-in for VR, a sentiment illustrated by some of our earliest articles covering VR cinema pioneers and the apps they chose to build. Since then of…