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Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR by pekk on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:38PM (#7469749)
I'll make you a gentleman's bet that Facebook is thinking about eye tracking.

Google acquiring Nest has a plan: collect data on electricity usage, presence in house and have a basis for inferring what people are doing generally all day.

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Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR by prawn on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @08:11PM (#7470402)
Could they do eye tracking with a phone's camera easily enough?
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Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR by 72deluxe on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @05:28AM (#7472363)
Samsung do I think, for their scrolling feature.
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