We have seen multiple reports about Google working on a standalone VR headset for a while now. However, in July of this year we also saw a report that claimed the company has cancelled its plans for a standalone unit. As with most reports and rumors, they should never be taken as fact since they likely do not have all of the information.
So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Google have decided to pivot from their previous VR headset plans to something a little different.
The latest report about this mysterious device is that it will incorporate eye tracking from the user. For a regular VR headset, eye tracking could be used as an additional interaction method (instead of controllers), but it’s easy to see how software and games could use this data in their products too. On the same day that this report was published, we also saw an announcement about Google acquiring Eyefluence, a company that worked on eye-interaction software.
So with this report about Google’s vision for a standalone VR headset, it’s easy to see why they would be interested in a company like Eyefluence. The report goes even further though and talks about how this VR headset will “map out the real-world space in front of a user.” This should sound familiar as this is what Google’s Tango project can do. Instead of just a typical AR headset though, the report cites a source who describes it as “bringing the world into VR.”
We are likely a long way from finding out exactly what Google’s vision for this headset really is. It’s been known that Google feels AR, not VR, will be more successful in the long run. They might feel this way because of the work they’ve already been doing with Tango, or they might have a different vision of how AR or “mixed reality” can be used in our everyday lives.
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