What if the characters on your screen can look back at you? Does not sound practically, right? Anyhow, FOVE is a virtual reality headset that can be controlled and coordinated by our eye movements. It makes use of an eye-tracking technology with foveated rendering. Fovea is the part of the eye that is mainly responsible for central Vision. As you can see the product’s name- “FOVE”, draws clear similarity to fovea.
This is how it operates:
Things consumers are aiming at will be figured out by the graphics engine, then the rendering power of that particular area is focused and high concentration is fed there so that it looks slightly different. The FOVE headset is said to be compatible with a wide range of smart devices, like PC’s, phones, tablets etc. The gamers will find it revolutionary as it will give a pleasant gaming experience. Just look into your target and aim a weapon at it, zoom into the details of the game by just focusing on a subject and a lot more. That’s the fancy part of this headset, when it comes to the useful part softwares could be created for it to work with special people, especially the ones with motor neuron disease.
Developers created the software for a teenager with motor neuron disease, so that he could play a piano and he proved to be able to do it. The founders of FOVE believe it will be a revolutionary aid for people with mobility disorders like autism, aspergers, etc. Components like display are provided by Toshiba and Samsung. The company is currently working on refining it’s eye-tracking technology. As infrared lights are used in this device, the safety of its users is put to test. Once it is done with all these formalities it will be ready for the big release.
