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Varjo Closes $15 million Investment Round

by Norbert Hildebrand

The name Varjo is not very well known in the VR industry, but that may change if they can achieve what they are promising. The existing prototype was good enough to gather enough initial …

Snapdragon 645 Boosts Foveated Rendering

by Bob Raikes

One of the features that is included in the latest Snapdragon 645, from Qualcomm, is Andreno foveation, a set of circuits for optimising gaze recognition and eye tracking. According to Jon Peddie’s TechWatch, the …

Tags:AR/VR| Gaze Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 25 - Issue 04

LDM&MDM Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

Canatu is a company that we have been tracking for a long time, as it was one of the companies pursuing the replacement of ITO, in its case, with carbon nanobuds. The company has …

Over 100 Games Now Support Tobii Eye-Tracking Tech

by Andrew Fenn

Over 100 games now support Tobii’s eye-tracking technology, making gaming more accessible than ever for players with disabilities that prevent them from using handheld peripherals like keyboards and controllers. Recent titles to gain eye-tracking …

The Fove Eye Tracking HMD Reaches Production

by Arthur Berman

The Fove headset has at last become a real product. Distinguishing features of the HMD developed by Fove, Inc. (San Mateo, CA) include eye tracking capability and the use of foveated image rendering. Meko …

Tags:Foveated Rendering| Gaze Recognition| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 45

Fraunhofer to Show Bidirectional Microdisplays

by Bob Raikes

Fraunhofer FEP is planning to show new bidirectional OLED microdisplays in a VR headset at the AWE Europe event in Munich on the 19th and 20th of October. The group has modified an existing …

Boring iPhone X May Just be Revolutionary After All

by Steve Sechrist

While traveling this past week to LA, I ran into another house guest at my AirBnB. Anne, a millennial Muscovite who works in IT security and was well briefed on the new iPhone X. …

Visual Camp Gaze Technology in Samsung Exynos VR III

by Bob Raikes

The K-ICT Born2Global Centre, a Korean government agency under the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), announced that the VR eye-tracking technology of member company, Visual Camp, will be mounted on Samsung …

Apple Buys SMI to Acquire Gaze Technology

by Bob Raikes

Apple has bought gaze recognition company, SMI, although it has made no formal statement about the deal, simply quoting its standard line that it buys technology companies from time to time. SMI, which is …

Galaxy G8 Eye Security Compromised

by Yvette Raikes

Samsung’s Galaxy S8 smartphone includes iris recognition as an option to unlock the phone. The company originally said that this provided “airtight” security, but the Chaos Computer Club managed to unlock a phone using …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Security| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Smart Eye Offers High End Gaze Recognition

by Bob Raikes

We have covered gaze recognition regularly over recent years, usually at the entry level, so it was interesting to see a high end system from Smart Eye at Itec. The company has two different …

Tobii Introduces PCEye Plus

by Bob Raikes

Tobii Dynavox has released the PCEye Plus is a new eye tracker that incorporates a four array microphone for voice input. The device also allows the use of a switch and can be used …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 17