Tobii’s New Partnership Sets Stage for Advancing Next-Gen Eye-Tracking in XR Headsets

Man, okay, so Tobii and Prophesee, right? They’re teaming up to make eye-tracking for AR/VR headsets cooler than ever. And honestly, I didn’t even know cameras that mimic human eyes were a thing until now. Prophesee’s tech is nuts. It skips all the boring parts and just catches changes—like movement or whatever. It’s supposed to be faster and eats up less juice. Handy for, like, everything from self-driving cars to now, yes, crazy futuristic glasses.

Anyway, they say Tobii’s smashing eye-tracking tech with Prophesee’s sensors will make some sort of super-efficient eye thingy. It has to be power-saving and tiny. People want smart glasses that don’t look like a chunky machine on their face, I guess.

Oh, and Luca Verre, the brain behind Prophesee, says this sensor vision deal is a dream for wearables that need to be always on. I kind of rolled my eyes here—it’s like an advertisement, but sure, you do you, Luca. Tobii’s got this rep for great eye-tracking, so it kinda makes sense they’d want to mix and match with Prophesee’s cool gadgets.

Emma Bauer, some top dog at Tobii, thinks smart glasses are tough for eye-tracking. She says they need to squeeze into normal glasses spots and work like magic. That made me laugh—imagining my granny peering at her recipe through AI-futuristic specs.

Speaking of which, there’s this pic floating around of some Ray-Ban glasses. Imagine that, but with eyes following you—is this Big Brother or the future of social hangouts? Maybe both.

Finally, Tobii’s been all over VR stuff for years, helping with foveated rendering and IPD something-something—I get lost in jargon—but apparently, they make stuff work smoother. Their tech’s in things like PlayStation VR 2. It’s wild to think how gear-heavy gaming and reality stuff have gotten.

So, yeah, these two companies are set to stir the pot in the AR/VR world. New eye-tracking standards might be on the horizon, unless we get distracted by the next shiny tech toy. Who knows?