What They Say
UploadVR reported that Sony has applied for a patent to cover ‘Eye Tracking To Adjust Region-Of-Interest (ROI) For Compressing Images For Transmission’. Foveated rendering is explicitly mentioned later in the document.
The blog reported earlier this year that the gaze recognition feature would be included in the PS5 VR headset.
What We Think
It’s hard to think, given the challenges with processing and the subsequent power consumption and heat, that anybody is going to develop a headset without some kind of foveation. (BR)
This image from the patent shows how a mesh could be less detailed away from the centre
