Following the launch of the VIVE Focus 3 exclusive expansion kit “VIVE Focus 3 Wrist Tracker”, HTC announced the launch of “VIVE Focus 3 Eye Tracking Kit” and “VIVE Focus 3 Expression Detection Kit”, which can make VR all-in-one devices in the virtual world. Provides more realistic human interaction, and both “VIVE Focus 3 Eye Tracking Kit” and “VIVE Focus 3 Expression Detection Kit” are compatible with Unity, Unreal Engine, and Native, and can obtain parameters, configure foveated rendering, etc. through the VIVE Wave SDK function, the OpenXR open licensing standard will also launch services to support all-in-one PCs.
「 VIVE Focus 3 Eye Tracking Kit“and” VIVE Focus 3 Expression Detection Kit” has been listed in Taiwan, with a suggested price of 8,990 yuan and 3,200 yuan respectively, and consumers can order it on the HTC VIVE official website.
▲ The VIVE Focus 3 eye tracking kit uses a magnetic attraction mode to track the eye position with dual tracking cameras
The VIVE Focus 3 eye-tracking suite is designed to add realistic eye movements and blinks to virtual avatars, such as virtual applications that support rich facial expressions such as VIVE Sync teleconferencing, and can show more realistic non-verbal expressions with eyes; VIVE Focus 3 The eye tracking kit uses a dual-camera lens that supports infrared to capture the source of gaze, direction, pupil size, position, and eye opening. It is connected to VIVE Focus 3 by its own magnetic attraction, and supports interpupillary distance adjustment. Dynamic foveated rendering technology, which can reduce visual peripheral impact processing and reduce GPU load.
▲ The VIVE Focus 3 expression detection kit is connected to the host via USB to capture facial expressions with a single lens
The VIVE Focus 3 expression detection suite captures 38 mixed movements of lips, jaws, teeth, tongue, chin and cheeks through the built-in single tracking camera, which can present real facial movements and expressions. Latency is synchronized with lips and sound, and accessories are connected to VIVE Focus 3 via USB Type-C, eliminating the need for additional kits or adapters.