Facebook's Oculus has acquired the Danish company The Eye Tribe,
The Eye Tribe, founded in 2011, develops eye-tracking software that enables eye movements to control consumer devices, the company's website says. It began shipping its Eye Tracking Software Development Kit to developers in 2014.
This technology can basically go into any kind of device, everything from your smartphone, to your watch, or your car to automatically detect if you're falling asleep behind the wheel, or in games where you could use your eyes to shoot. This is the kind of technology that's applied in fighter planes today, it's million dollar technology that is bringing to the mass market.
But it's the technology's application to virtual reality that most likely got Oculus interested that the eye sensors will radically improve VR and AR [augmented reality].
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