Facebook is set to step up its facial tracking capabilities after finalising another new acquisition.
The social media’s Oculus arm has announced the takeover of a startup called The Eye Tribe in what could prove a major step forward in the quest to get Virtual Reality (VR) headsets into every home.
The deal could soon mean that Oculus VR devices are able to scan your eyes to track which way you’re looking with more detail and accuracy than ever before.
The deal, which was confirmed to TechCrunch, is a major step forward for the Danish company, which develops eye-tracking device headsets for just $99.
Its affordable technology, which could be used in a wide number of gaming and app use cases, allows the user to control or interact their VR experience simply by looking in a certain direction.
The Eye Tribe’s ‘foveated rendering’ technology means that only the area of the VR experience you are looking directly at is fully generated.
This provides huge savings in technological power and efficiency by only focusing on one area, rather than continually created the 360-degree high-definition models currently seen in many existing VR headsets.
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Source: Express UK