{"id":184334,"date":"2016-10-25T13:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T11:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=184334"},"modified":"2016-10-25T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T11:59:14","slug":"google-acquires-eye-tracking-virtual-reality-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/184334-google-acquires-eye-tracking-virtual-reality-technology.html","title":{"rendered":"Google acquires eye-tracking virtual reality technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eyefluence\u00a0announced <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eyefluence.com\/eyefluence-joins-google\/\" target=\"_blank\">on its website<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that\u00a0Google has acquired it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With our forces combined, we will continue to advance eye-interaction technology to expand human potential and empathy on an even larger scale,&#8221; said Eyefluence.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three years, the company has developed technology to track eye movement specifically for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality applications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Traditional eye-tracking companies have tried to translate eye movement into a method for control using the same principles as the standard mouse, requiring users to wait and wink on objects to initiate action,&#8221; said Eyefluence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This makes eye-tracking slow, unsatisfying, and straining \u2013 and it sacrifices concentration and vision for machine manipulation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Eyefluence, its user interface lets you interact with and\u00a0control head-mounted displays as fast as your eyes can see.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZRht_QG3R38\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/183430-google-pixel-is-the-best-android-phone-ever.html\">Google Pixel is the best Android phone ever<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has acquired Eyefluence, a virtual and augmented reality eye-tracking company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,11925,39480,167],"class_list":["post-184334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-augmented-reality","tag-eyefluence","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184448,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184334\/revisions\/184448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}