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Virtual reality and eye-tracking seem like an incredible match — for reasons I’ll illustrate below — and now HTC’s first dedicated stab at an eye-tracking headset has arrived in the US and Canada for $1,599. That’s the word from HTC’s official blog post, following an earlier release for the headset in China and Europe last month.

Why eye-tracking? As my colleague Nick explained when he tried the Vive Pro Eye in January, it not only allows you to control things in VR just by looking at them, but can also produce higher fidelity VR images with less processing power — by only rendering the parts of a scene that you’re actually looking at in high resolution, instead of wasting those resources on your peripheral vision too. It’s a technique called foveated rendering.

That’s important because it takes more processing power to render VR scenes to begin with than today’s flatscreen 3D applications and games, which has left many VR experiences looking less graphically impressive than they might otherwise be. Eye-tracking can also theoretically give you a much more compelling avatar in a virtual world when you’re interacting with other people, since it can show them where you’re actually looking even though you’ve got a headset on your face:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/6/18655871/htc-vive-pro-eye-vr-headset-eye-tracking-price-release-us-canada

This is why eye-tracking in VR is about more than foveated rendering
Of all the potential developments touted as a turning point for VR, few have been as eagerly anticipated as eye-tracking.

Eye-tracking is the ability to measure what a person is looking at inside a VR headset. As we’ve previously explored, it’s generally spoken about in the context of foveated rendering, which can make VR much more computationally - and therefore cost - effective (Foundry's own Modo VR already uses foveated rendering on the current crop of HMDs to save on processing power, for example).

Look beyond the big headlines around foveated rendering however, and you’ll discover a host of other exciting applications for eye-tracking.
Being able to adjust our focus on objects that are either near or far away is an intrinsic part of human sight - one that VR headsets are currently unable to match.

https://www.foundry.com/insights/vr-ar-mr/eye-tracking-in-vr

I think VR is going to be bigger than people realize.
Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook's Zuckerberg isn't giving up on Oculus or virtual reality
Exclusive: The head of the world's largest social network says Facebook’s chance at shaping the future starts with VR.

VR's been a work in progress for five years at Facebook, with the technology improving but the masses not diving in. Despite promises and reports of Facebook making augmented reality headsets that blend the real and the virtual, like Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's co-founder and CEO, says VR is still the way forward, and is more than a doorway to games. He still sees it as Facebook's bet on the future, not unlike the bet Steve Jobs made at Apple a decade ago on the iPhone, which helped kickstart the mobile revolution.

When Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was buying then-startup Oculus VR in 2014 for more than $2 billion, the tech industry was confused why the social media giant would care about VR. But to Zuckerberg, it was -- and is -- a bridge to the AR future, which he believes is the next tectonic shift in tech. He describes it as a move from smartphones in our pockets to VR headsets that embed us in a computer-generated world. Then, eventually, to AR glasses that overlay computer images (dinosaurs, spaceships, fairy forests, avatars of our friends, mapping directions down the street) onto the real world.

https://www.cnet.com/features/facebooks-zuckerberg-isnt-giving-up-on-oculus-or-virtual-reality/

More clues?
I think VR is going to be bigger than people realize.
Mark Zuckerberg

We want the device to be affordable for people. So, we're pushing really aggressively on cost.
Mark Zuckerberg

What about eye tracking? That's something that's considered key for VR and AR. And there are questions about what happens with eye-tracking data. Oculus hasn't done eye tracking yet.
There are a bunch of sensors that you want to add, but part of what needs to get worked out is, if you added every sensor imaginable, then you get to a device that's bulkier, that eats more energy. So that's going to be the basic constraints on this, is there's social acceptability -- can you get something that is reasonable? And can you get something that doesn't consume so much energy that either burns through the battery quickly or just gets too hot, right, to wear on your face?

So, assume that that's part of the question that we're trying to figure out: What do we need to deliver to deliver real presence? That's the big question for us. Other folks might be thinking about, OK, well, what can I make in glasses that would be useful? For us, it's the magical thing about AR and VR, compared to every other computing platform before, is that it actually could let you feel like you're there with a person that makes you feel more present, rather than pulling you away from people like we do with our phones and computers today. And to me, that's the holy grail of the mission of this company, making it so that you could be anywhere in the world, and you can feel present with people both for social, and for work.

The concept behind Facebook’s new VR display concept is that the smaller, moving display would match the high-density region of your vision, focusing whatever part of a VR simulation you’re looking at in high definition, and the background would fill in the rest. But it’s unclear what purpose Facebook expects this technology to serve — whatever part of a VR experience you’re watching will always be in better focus than the periphery because that’s how eyes already work all the time.

99 Percent Perspiration
Also, it’s just a patent. As Upload VR reported, this tech may never actually come to fruition. Assuming Facebook’s patent holds up in court against similar technology, the company would still need to then decide that it’s worth the investment to put retinal resolution tech into future Oculus VR headsets.

Facebook might hold on to the patent but decide it’s not worth actually building out the tech. After all, as long as they’re sitting on the legal rights to eye-tracking retinal tech, no one else can bring it to market.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/futurism.com/facebook-oculus-patented-retina-resolution-vr-display/amp

More research needed but it’s started staring me in the eye and tracking them lol.
Eye-tracking is thought to be one of the next big things for VR, though that’s largely because an accurate, reliable system will enable foveated rendering, which only fully renders the area of a screen the user is directly looking at. Google, however, wants to use an algorithm to scan a user’s expression in real-time and then translate that into a virtual expression on their avatar.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2018/11/10/google-describes-patent-for-eye-tracking-system-that-reads-expressions-for-vr/amp/

Foveated Rendering is what I think it could be?

Why? Google and Facebook both bought eye tracking companies but haven’t succeeded in trying to what they wanted to do it seems.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2016/12/29/facebook-purchases-an-eye-tracking-startup-with-an-eye-toward-enhancing-vr/amp/
. This rendering to be successful needs to be accurate & reliable. What if after 3 years they can’t do it? Would they licence from someone who can? The possibilities are endless. Training processes in manufacturing, training in operations, gaming etc. We all know VR is the future.

https://www.gleechi.com/virtualrealityindustrytraining?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpuOD7Yzt5AIVQ7TtCh0iEwffEAAYAiAAEgImxPD_BwE#efficiency-page
Reduce processing power by having accurate & reliable eye tracking will reduce costs of products.
How important is operation training for Doctors, like aviation what a way to train people and analyse the pupils.
Cenkos last paragraph saying we could be more valuable than Mobileye doesn’t just pop into someone’s head. Someone’s explained where & who can use SEEs tech in a much wider market than transportation industries.
How much do we earn per car in auto? $10,20,30??
Personal computing devices are basically anything with a screen. So my monies on it being based on that.
By Cenkos putting in a passing comment of, oh by the way it could be worth Worth $billions they know something we don’t.

Moon
Sure after reading ETs update you will be buying the same again on Thurs.

S7

lets hope on our next $50 million RNS its pro rata :)

Esco
Like West Hams goalie :) lol

S7
German Aerospace Center (DLR) orders additional Smart Eye Pro systems
WED, SEP 25, 2019 13:09 CET
Long-term customer, The German Aerospace Center, or DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) orders an additional Smart Eye Pro system.

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.), abbreviated DLR, is the national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research of Germany. With headquarters located in Cologne and multiple locations throughout Germany, the DLR is engaged in a wide range of research projects in national and international partnerships. In addition to conducting its own research projects, DLR also acts as the German space agency. As such, it is responsible for planning and implementing the German space program on behalf of the German federal government. As a project management agency, DLR also coordinates the technical and organizational implementation of projects funded by a number of German federal ministries.

DLR is one of Smart Eyes long time customers. They are using both the Smart Eye Pro system (SEP) and the updated version the Smart Eye Pro dx for several years in their efforts to develop automotive and railway systems as well as traffic management. Smart Eye’s eye trackers have been used both in driving simulators and during naturalistic drives on roads. For its new project the DLR team in Braunschweig looked for a tracker with the ability to handle a larger field of view, that is able to cope with vibrations and shocks, and a solution that does not influence the driver’s behavior.


The order consists of a remote eye tracker, the Smart Eye Pro dx system, with 6 freely placeable cameras.



Read more about the Smart Eye Pro (SEP) system here: https://smarteye.se/research-instruments/se-pro/


Read more about the Smart Eye Pro (SEP) dx system here: https://smarteye.se/smart-eye-pro-new-features-and-demo/

S7eve

No SEYE moved up after this one. 1 unit to existing customer.

https://news.cision.com/smart-eye/r/german-aerospace-center--dlr--orders-additional-smart-eye-pro-systems,c2917453

Never heard of it but looks ok. Drive it on subsciption.

Kranz says it was also made with autonomy in mind, and while the current system is arrayed with seven cameras, five radars and 12 ultra sonic sensors to provide level two autonomy. Kranz is especially proud of a new feature which has a video camera focused on the driver to monitor their actions and avoid unnecessary alerts when they’re operating a vehicle safely.

“We watch the face and the meaning of the driver with the camera” Kranz says. “When the camera recognizes that the driver pays attention… like looking to the right side and checking blind spots, we don’t warn them with an alert… Because people sometimes turn off the warning systems.”
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/24/canoo-takes-the-covers-off-of-its-debut-electric-vehicle/

http://rscf.ru/en/node/scientists-designed-driver-monitoring-application-for-smartphone

Lewbo
The last paragraph in the Cenkos may well be a clue? Seemed to me when he said might never need a raise had some more meaning behind it.

Fonzoo
I love your plain English analyst of the situation. Lol
I hate it though at the same time because I too get excited
And that means robbing the piggy banks again to buy a few more and tuck away.
I think a good 6 weeks is coming and the ones bought now could be double or treble, if not a lot more by Xmas?

Esco
I blame the scotch whiskey home brew up there. lol

RFrost

I still havent got my head around the situation after reading loads in the past. Seems a web of intrigue though.

https://www.nexty-ele.com/english/history/#/company

https://www.nexty-ele.com/english/company/group-company/

Baxter

Yep 50% deposit and a mortgage will be fine for the other 50% :)

Old 14p is about 9.5p now, but doubled auto order book so should be back upto old highs IMO

See is like a good wine, will be worth more the longer you keep it iam sure as time is this ones main strength.