Foveated Rendering
Foveated Rendering
Tobii Spotlight Technology — advanced eye tracking specialized for foveation
Foveation technology
Foveation technology
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
Enhanced devices
Enriched 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.
High frame rates
Reduced GPU load enables high frame rates.
High resolution
Supporting high resolution with existing GPU.
Enhanced graphics
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


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
Foveated transport
Foveated streaming
Compress and stream live content efficiently over low-latency 5G networks.
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Tobii Spotlight Technology
made for foveation
Tobii Spotlight Technology
made for foveation
Tobii Spotlight Technology — fact sheet
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