Foveated Rendering

Foveated Rendering

Tobii Spotlight Technology™ — advanced eye tracking specialized for foveation

Foveation technology
Foveation technology

Designed by nature

Built by Tobii

Human vision is a marvel of computational efficiency

The fovea, a small part of the retina, renders content in high resolution while the rest (peripheral vision) is effectively a blur. Following nature’s blueprint, Tobii Spotlight Technology enables dynamic foveated rendering to deliver better devices and better experiences.

Tobii Spotlight Technology
Tobii Spotlight Technology

Better devices

Better experiences

What you see is what you get

Our dynamic foveated rendering technology can help you to achieve outstanding computational efficiency, enhancing device performance. Accurate, low-latency tracking of a person’s gaze point is delivered in real-time, to enable meaningful user experiences.

Benchmarking shows 57% reduction of GPU shading load at an average shading rate of 16% *

Smooth frame rates

Consistently reduced GPU load provides headroom to maintain frame rates.

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High frame rates

Reduced GPU load enables high frame rates.

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High resolution

Supporting high resolution with existing GPU.

Enhanced graphics

More complex shading is possible without increasing GPU load.

Note: this benchmark test uses on Nvidia VRS foveation in Showdown VR and was carried out on a HTC Vive Pro Eye and RTX2070.

NVIDIA VRSS 2 powered by Tobii Spotlight Technology
NVIDIA VRSS 2 powered by Tobii Spotlight Technology

NVIDIA’s Variable Rate Supersampling (VRSS) solution is designed to raise image quality in VR applications running. The VRSS 2 release leverages dynamic foveated rendering powered by Tobii Spotlight Technology, which provides eye tracking information at minimal latency to the NVIDIA driver. Without any additional integration by developers or ISVs, users of VRSS-2-compatible applications will experience higher image quality around the point on which they focus in real-time.

For more information, check out NVIDIA’s developer blog and watch this industry panel discussion

Side-by-side comparison of VRSS on and off in VRChat.

Video courtesy of NVIDIA. VRSS 2 raises image quality in the foveated region (highlighted by the green circle). To see the improvement, play the video in full–screen mode. Images from Onward VR courtesy of Downpour Interactive.

Explore new possibilities with foveation
Explore new possibilities with foveation
Next generation foveation will combine human biology with the latest technologies.

Foveated transport

Optimize graphics transfer using data compression based on user focus.

Foveated streaming

Compress and stream live content efficiently over low-latency 5G networks.

Tech reviews
Tech reviews
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“Eye tracking is the way to future improvements in VR rendering technology, and is the key to reducing costs and the barrier of entry for most folks.”

— Android Headlines

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“This frees up GPU resources for other purposes, such as boosting frame rates or conserving power, and Tobii expects that it will be used in the future to transfer and stream data that’s been dynamically optimized for the user’s current visual focus, including over low-latency 5G networks.”

— VentureBeat

“This drastically reduces the strain on hardware processing a VR experience. As such, foveated rendering is largely considered to be one of the key components of bringing VR costs down in the future.”

— UploadVR

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