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The VPS Smart Glasses just got even smarter: With new features like gaze-based image brightness and a stabilized live heatmap, you can work comfortably and achieve more accurate results – hands-free and in real-time. Whether you’re providing remote support or analyzing visual focus and attention, the new features make your workflow smoother and give you the best result in any situation.

With filings on the rise, patents are more critical than ever as a driving force for technological progress and growth. Eddy Vindigni, IP Counsel at Viewpointsystem, shares insights and key strategies on navigating the patent process: How do you decide what to patent? What role does AI play? And how can you protect your intellectual property in collaborations with others?

By Cezara Muresan Every day, thousands of children make their way to school, often navigating busy streets and intersections. But how well do they really understand the risks? Last year,…

AR expert Martin Herdina explains why Artificial Intelligence and Eye Tracking are key to advancing Augmented Reality. In our interview, he talks about the latest progress of smart glasses and shares his insights into which industrial applications are proving successful. Learn what developments to expect in the coming years and where challenges remain.

Find out why the white sclera once gave us an evolutionary advantage and how our gaze behaviour optimises technologies such as autonomous driving and smart glasses. An exciting look at how traits that once evolved for survival are now being used in completely new contexts.

Smart glasses are still a relatively new technology, raising unanswered questions regarding data protection and occupational safety. Due to the wide variety of products and applications, there are currently only a few specific legal regulations and recommendations. Renate Stiegler, Product Manager at Viewpointsystem, explains the key factors that companies should consider to successfully implement smart glasses.  

The Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s first headset, has made quite a splash upon its market debut – from spine-tingling commercials and enthusiastic reviews to sharp critiques. But what’s the real feel of the Apple Vision Pro? Our team put it through its paces, examining especially the eye tracking feature pivotal for control and navigation.

In the fast-paced world of traffic, experience and youth often find themselves at odds. But what if we could take a peek behind the wheel, revealing insights into driving behavior that go beyond any traffic regulation? That’s precisely what the ORF Dok 1 team, equipped with our Smart Glasses, was able to do when they challenged 59-year-old journalist Hanno Settele and 21-year-old Digital Creator Safiye to an unusual competition.

Our Smart Glasses streamline learning, from mastering complex machinery to immersive practical training. With real-time gaze visualization, trainers offer targeted feedback while learners gain valuable insights into task essentials. Bulky manuals are replaced by immersive videos, live remote training becomes reality, and sessions are dynamic and engaging.

Every year in early January, the entertainment mecca of the United States transforms into a global tech hub: CES in Las Vegas is THE tech event to kick off the new year. Even though it’s primarily a consumer-oriented show, CES is hugely influential and helps set the agenda for the year. This is what you need to know from the show floor.

Despite a slight slowdown in inflation, the manufacturing industry will face significant challenges in 2024. Products, raw materials and services have become more expensive at all levels of the supply chain. At the same time, these challenges offer opportunities to become more resilient in the marketplace and to leverage the potential of digital tools and technologies. High energy prices and rising labor costs are not only a burden, but also an opportunity for change.

Micro-optics are fundamental components in camera systems for smart devices, mobility applications, or medical products. We speak with Nils Fahrbach, CEO of Printoptix, and Frank Linsenmaier, CTO of Viewpointsystem, about the ambitious project “3DPrintoptixMarket“: Using a novel 3D printing process, high-end micro-optics are manufactured in a single step. Used in Viewpointsystem’s smart glasses, they should enable individual product customization.

Automation and digitalization are reshaping roles and professions in manufacturing. Entire workforces must adapt and learn new skills, such as operating or programming machines and robots, after previously performing manual tasks. There is also a growing need to make work processes more efficient and safer. This is where eye tracking comes in. Companies like Toyota and Denso have already successfully integrated this technology on the shop floor for various applications.

We demand more and more computing power from our devices, but conventional computing architectures are increasingly reaching their physical limits. In their search for new ways to continue scaling up processing, researchers and chip designers are taking inspiration from the way the brain processes information. This is also happening in the EU-funded research project “NimbleAI”: Viewpointsystem and 18 partners are developing a neuromorphic ‘super-chip’ that will be extremely powerful while consuming very little energy.

Get ready for an impressive device for training, education, and documentation – the VPS Lite Unit! With its compact size and lightweight yet robust design, it sets new standards in mobile eye tracking. It will be available from autumn 2023, offering the wearer unique wearing comfort and unrestricted freedom of movement.

For most users our VPS 19 glasses work out of the box without any calibration, providing an auto-calibrated gaze accuracy that is good enough for many applications. For situations that require a personalized calibration, we provide a simple one-point calibration procedure that estimates personalized κ angles for each eyeball and improves the typical gaze accuracy to below 1°.

Soldiers, special forces, police officers – anyone in the field – often have only fractions of a second to make decisions. With the help of advanced mobile eye tracking, operational forces can train their attention and enhance perception. Nils Berger, Founder & CEO of Viewpointsystem, explains how the technology leads to a better understanding of human perception, as well as increased efficiency and security during operations.

Imagine it’s the middle of the week, actually a normal working day, but instead of daily business it says “Inspire Day” on your calendar. Once a month at Viewpointsystem it is exactly like that. Then it’s time for “business as unusual”.

The metaverse is one of the big buzzwords these days and not much more than a vision today. Many companies are committed to shaping the metaverse. And so are we. This is because eye tracking and, in particular, our Digital Iris technology offer the possibility of emulating authentic human gaze behavior on avatars. We talked to Alejandro Gloriani, R&D Senior Developer in the Advanced Technology Team at Viewpointsystem, about this.

Easy and uncomplicated operation is crucial for smart glasses to be accepted by employees and to survive successfully in the company. For this reason, we are constantly working on making our smart glasses even more easy and intuitive to use. Today, we would like to introduce four features that make the VPS 19 better optimized for real-world use.

Even if the metaverse is still a future version: most experts agree, it will keep us much busier than we can imagine today, also in terms of significant performance improvements in the industry. Which application areas will offer the greatest potential for manufacturing companies in the short and medium term? 

A month has passed since ETRA 2022, the best and most renowned eye tracking conference of its kind. The aim of ETRA (full name: ACM Symposium of Eye Tracking Research & Applications) is to bring together researchers across disciplines to advance eye tracking research and its applications. And this year, the organizers and everyone contributing really succeeded in doing that in every respect.

Eye impairments such as one eye with very low visual acuity, the loss of one eye, a cataract in just one of the eyes (opacity in the lens), strabismus (the eyes do not properly align with each other when looking at an object), amblyopia (lazy eye), anisocoria or differently sized pupils (one of the most unique traits of David Bowie) can lead one to wonder if eye tracking is still possible.

5 TIPS ON HOW TO AVOID ACCEPTANCE PROBLEMS Digitalization processes such as the introduction of smart glasses in the company are tantamount to a change process. While young professionals are…

WHY DIGITALIZATION NEEDS WOMEN In this series of articles, we introduce some of the fantastic women who work with us at Viewpointsystem. Obviously, they represent all women who work with…

An insight into our production By Lukas Porak, Head of Production It wasn’t long ago that 3D printing was used primarily for the inexpensive production of prototypes. In the meantime,…

Remote support is one of the most demanded applications among manufacturers and plant operators. To ensure that smart glasses deliver the desired ROI, a few points need to be considered….

IMPROVING CUSTOMER SERVICE WITH THE VPS 19 SMART GLASSES As a hidden champion, Hanseatic Power Solutions (HPS) in Norderstedt just outside Hamburg, Germany, produces switchgear for the whole world and…

Eye Hyper-Tracking is the root of what we do. Some of you may know eye tracking, but Eye Hyper-Tracking can do so much more. What exactly is it and makes…

One of the major future challenges with augmented and mixed reality is: you are offered nearly unlimited data, but how do you let your machine know which data you want…