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SMI Eye Tracking Enables Foveated Rendering on Mobile
Virtual Reality Platform at GDC
SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI),
a world leader in eye tracking
technology, will premiere its
mobile eye tracking technology
on an ARM®-based mobile virtual
reality (VR) platform at GDC 2017.
SMI eye tracking is a proven
technology found in smart devices,
including computer and tablet
screens, eye tracking glasses and
AR/VR.
The VR demo, which uses a Samsung Gear VR headset with the
Samsung Galaxy S7, features an Exynos 8890 SoC with an ARM
Mali™ GPU and will showcase the benefits of eye tracking for
mobile VR, including foveated rendering. As well as delivering
a superior visual experience to the user, foveated rendering
alleviates the power demand issues common to mobile VR.
Addressing the demand VR places on chips in smartphones is
crucial for the continued growth of this market and enabling
next generation mobile VR.
“Eye tracking technology will bring yet another level of sharpness
and detail to untethered VR worlds,” said Pablo Fraile, director
of ecosystems, mobile compute, ARM. “Our demonstration of
SMI mobile eye tracking technology on ARM-based devices
highlights how foveated rendering will increase the efficiency
of mobile VR experiences without compromising frame rates or
visual quality.”
SMI has delivered more than 10 eye tracking integrations
for AR and VR in the past 12 months – covering tethered VR
HMDs, standalone and mobile VR
headsets.
“Given ARM’s global position as
a mobile technology provider we
are very pleased with the success
of this collaboration,” said SMI
Director OEM Business Christian
Villwock. “We have long believed
that eye tracking is central to the
future of all VR – including mobile
– and having a company such as
ARM align with this view is to us, a vindication of that long-held
belief.”
Key benefits of eye tracking for VR include:
Foveated rendering- providing a richer visual experience with a
lower processing load
Social presence- the SMI Social Eye, launched earlier this year,
creates a realistic eye-to-eye experience when avatars meet in
virtual worlds
Gaze interaction- select content by simply looking at a menu
option
Personal display calibration- providing a VR experience more
comfortable for the eye
Analytical insights- which are of great value to games
developers, corporate users and researchers
Experience ARM’s eye tracking demo at GDC 2017, booth 1924.
The demo will teleport the user into the heart of a smartphone,
exploring the inside – from chip to camera to speakers – from an
entirely new perspective, guided by a friendly robot companion.
Ayla Networks and Develco Products Join Forces to
Create IoT Gateways for Smart Home, Smart Lighting and
Smart Energy Management Markets
Ayla Networks, a global Internet of Things (IoT) platform for
manufacturers, has established a partnership with Develco
Products, a white-label product development company
based in Denmark. Develco Products will integrate Ayla IoT
platform technologies into its IoT gateway solutions, with
the goal of reducing time to market and costs for smart
home, smart lighting and smart energy management
manufacturers worldwide.
The Ayla IoT platform is supported by Develco Products’
Squik.Link Gateway, a modular all-in-one solution for
connecting various smart home devices across disparate
wireless protocols.
“By taking advantage of the Ayla IoT platform, Develco
Products customers creating connected products
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