HTC reveals VIVE Facial Tracker 3.0
The HTC VIVE Facial Tracker 3.0 looks to be the most precise yet.
A leading name in the world of virtual reality, HTC’s VIVE products look to fully immerse users and deliver supreme VR experiences. Now, the company has revealed the VIVE Facial Tracker 3.0, which it says is capable of precise tracking of facial expressions and emotions.
The HTC VIVE Facial Tracker 3.0 was revealed on March 10 with a listing to the company’s website. A tweet was made detailing what the new product is capable of. “It's time to put your best face forward. VIVE Facial Tracker seamlessly tracks 38 facial movements across the lips, jaw, teeth, tongue, chin, and cheeks allowing you to be your most expressive self, whether socializing virtually or in performance capture.”
Announcing the new VIVE Tracker (3.0)! We took in all the feedback and made it better in every way.
— Shen Ye (@shen) March 10, 2021
🤏33% smaller
🪶15% lighter
💪HTC build quality
🔋up to 75% longer battery life
🔌USB-C (fought hard for this 😍)
🤌Identical mount & pogo pins
💸$129https://t.co/LYUlGjO5wz pic.twitter.com/lRxJ9Z2Dl8
HTC’s Senior Director Shen Ye shared the VIVE Facial Tracker’s specs on his personal twitter account. In addition to being significantly smaller and lighter than the previous gen, the VIVE Facial Tracker 3.0 features 75 percent more battery life, as well as USB-C support. HTC boasts that this new headset boasts practically no latency and can pick up on the subtlest of expressions.
The HTC VIVE Facial Tracker 3.0 is just the latest product revealed from one of the premiere names in VR. If you’re interested in picking one up yourself, the VIVE Facial Tracker 3.0 costs $129 and is set to release soon, more information can be found on the official listing. For more out of the tech company, visit the Shacknews topic page dedicated to HTC.
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replyDonovan Erskine posted a new article, HTC reveals VIVE Facial Tracker 3.0
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They are two separate products. They revealed a new tracker (v3) that you can attack to parts of your body or objects and a new facial tracker (first of its kind for VR) that can be attached to the bottom of the headset.-
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Yeah what he wrote anout is actually the regular VIVE Tracker 3.0. This tweet is about the facial tracker:
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$129 for the face tracking is huge news. Hopefully this combined with a few other similar hardware announcements I've seen lately mean we're moving towards eye and face tracking being standard for VR, because that's the next game-changer for a whole bunch of different use cases.
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It requires the Vive Pro, though, and it’s not a cheap headset.
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Yikes, didn't notice it was for the Pro only. Still, good first step!
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I threw my $10 in on a Deca Gear VR a while back specifically because of the eye and facial tracking focus, although trying to create an inside-out tracking system from scratch has me worried. With that big exception, I don't think anything they're promising is too outlandish for the price.
Latest dev update
https://www.deca.net/decagear-1-development-update-january-2021/
Here's a demo of their FaceFlow system, and they've said in the Discord that Metahuman integration should be a breeze.
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Thats pretty amazing!! And at $450, incredible!
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I really hope they can deliver in their promises. Even though a headset like this would be a blip on the sales chart compared to Oculus, Valve, and HTC it would show that competition on the hardware side is possible and, hopefully, encourage others to throw their hat in the ring. Like I posted above, my biggest worry right now is that they're having to create their own inside-out tracking system. From what I've heard about the non-Oculus solutions to that problem, specifically WMR headsets, they sound finicky at best.
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