The Cubic Motion’s team of motion capture experts have released a demo video that shows precise eye-tracking with HTC Vive Pro. What are its the benefits for Virtual Reality?
Eye-tracking is one of the most promising technologies for the virtual reality sector but it is still not used in VR glasses. That makes the innovations and developments from the industry, which sometimes show massive technical progress – for example from Cubic Motion, all the more exciting.
A video shows precise eye tracking
Cubic Motion has already supported numerous representatives of the video game industry in motion capture processes and animations of their game characters. Now the British company has released a short demo video on YouTube, which presents the eye-tracking of a camera from the German manufacturer Pupil Labs within HTC Vive Pro.
It is unclear which ambitions Cubic Motion pursues in the long term with regard to virtual reality. As we can see, however, the recording of the human eye in this example is extremely precise: Eyelid, iris, and pupil can be clearly separated and even the smallest movement can be detected.
Huge potential for VR
Anyone who follows the development of virtual reality knows what enormous potential the recording of the eyes holds for immersive technology. Scientists have already developed a method that uses eye-tracking to give VR users massive freedom of movement in the smallest of spaces.
The freedom of movement within virtual reality can be greatly increased by precise eye-tracking. © Qi Sun
Furthermore, eye tracking is the basis for so-called Foveated Rendering (FOVR), which displays in detail only parts of the virtual environment that are focused by the eyes. This should eliminate a considerable amount of computing load for VR environments in the future, which in turn would be an important step towards the mass market.
It is unclear to what extent Cubic Motion with its eye-tracking technology will be involved in the VR market. What is certain is that the company will not be alone: Patents of LG and Apple already point to new hardware solutions, Tobii showed new eye-tracking demos and also a German enterprise works already for some time with the technology.
What do you think of the demo video from Cubic Motion? Will you keep an eye on the developer? Share your opinion with us in the comments!
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