HTC Vive Pro Eye hands-on: Everything is prettier with gaze-tracking
Foveated rendering allows developers to focus their skills in a single area at a time -- namely, exactly where the player is looking.
The area around the user's direct gaze is blurred, which means there's more processing power to make whatever the person is actually looking at as sharp as possible.
Foveated rendering mimics the way the human eye works naturally , so it's not even noticeable when it's in action.
All the player sees is a cleaner, more realistic image, while everything else fades into the background and is filled in by the brain.
The Pro Eye improves upon the Pro's rendering capabilities nine-fold, according to ZeroLight technical director Chris O'Connor.
The difference was immediately clear -- the standard image was pixelated and duller, while the Pro Eye image looked like butter.
Have a customer build their dream vehicle, and at the end, the sales associate can see what areas they're most interested in or whether they lingered over a certain product, all to better upsell them.
These companies use the Vive Pro to train employees, improve processes, test new ideas and sell more products, and eye-tracking can be a benefit to all of these areas.
Of course, eye-tracking and foveated rendering can be huge benefits for gaming and entertainment experiences as well, and developers will surely hop on board now that the Pro Eye has been officially unveiled.
It's consumer-focused, designed to be comfortable and easy to use, and it runs on both a PCs and smartphones in some way.
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