01-08-2017, 11:58 AM
The Eye Tribe was a Danish launch company that produced eye tracking technology and was selling it to software developers to incorporate the eye tracking device into their applications and programs. Eye Tribe software allowed a user to run a smartphone, a tablet, or a computer with just a single eye. The company focused on a sleek appearance and a portable structure.
Sune Alstrup john (CEO), Javier San Agustín, Martin Tall (CTO), and Henrik Skovsgaard are the four founders of the company started in 2011. The four men met in 2006 at the University of IT in Copenhagen. The four quickly found their ambition to create eye tracking technology at an affordable cost, and soon they took the rights and ownership of their ideas from the university where they were working and created their newly created company. The men named the company "Senseye", until later changing its name to "The Eye Tribe". The company began to take off in 2011 when The Eye Tribe participated in the European Bootcamp accelerator bootstrapping program. After StartupBootcamp, the company began to make its mark and become better known, getting a place in Garner Inc.'s "Cool Vendors in Human-Machine Interface, 2012" report among five other companies. Later in 2012, The Eye Tribe received $ 2.3 million from Denmark's National Advanced Technology Foundation and another 1 million private European investors. The Eye Tribe also leads a government-funded USD 4.4 million project, making it the leading project for the development of eye tracking for portable devices. On December 12, 2016 The Eye Tribe sent an email to their list of customers, informing them that "they decided to go in a different direction with their technology and stopped the development of their products." On December 29, Facebook bought the company for its Oculus division in order to incorporate technology into the game Vr.
Sune Alstrup john (CEO), Javier San Agustín, Martin Tall (CTO), and Henrik Skovsgaard are the four founders of the company started in 2011. The four men met in 2006 at the University of IT in Copenhagen. The four quickly found their ambition to create eye tracking technology at an affordable cost, and soon they took the rights and ownership of their ideas from the university where they were working and created their newly created company. The men named the company "Senseye", until later changing its name to "The Eye Tribe". The company began to take off in 2011 when The Eye Tribe participated in the European Bootcamp accelerator bootstrapping program. After StartupBootcamp, the company began to make its mark and become better known, getting a place in Garner Inc.'s "Cool Vendors in Human-Machine Interface, 2012" report among five other companies. Later in 2012, The Eye Tribe received $ 2.3 million from Denmark's National Advanced Technology Foundation and another 1 million private European investors. The Eye Tribe also leads a government-funded USD 4.4 million project, making it the leading project for the development of eye tracking for portable devices. On December 12, 2016 The Eye Tribe sent an email to their list of customers, informing them that "they decided to go in a different direction with their technology and stopped the development of their products." On December 29, Facebook bought the company for its Oculus division in order to incorporate technology into the game Vr.