PERCEPT technology enables devices to understand user intent, resulting in truly immersive experiences

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Augmented reality applications, as well as consumer electronics, smartphones and wearables, can now be more intuitive and responsive. VoxelSensors, a provider of empathic technology and sensors for spatial computing, today introduced PERCEPT, a breakthrough innovation that leverages the company’s proprietary Single Photon Active Event Sensor (SPAES) technology. Based on the accuracy and information obtained from SPAES sensor inputs, VoxelSensors’ PERCEPT software abstraction layer enables it to deliver an unmatched combination of eye tracking and spatial awareness capabilities on handheld and mobile devices, ushering in a new era of empathetic computing.

“PERCEPT from VoxelSensors represents a paradigm shift by enabling devices to develop empathetic capabilities. This innovation is the shift from on-demand to feedforward interfaces, which manifests itself in agents and a unified user experience. These capabilities allow devices to understand user attention and intentions, enabling intuitive experiences through natural and anthropomorphic interactions with AI assistants,” said Boris Greenberg, vice president of XR Solutions.

“The future lies in spatial and empathetic processing, where VoxelSensors is one of the first to demonstrate the value of new functionality,” said Johannes Peeters, CEO. “With VoxelSensors’ PERCEPT solution, we have opened a new frontier by developing sensors that reliably perceive and understand users’ attention and intentions in their environment. These abilities promise exciting new experiences beyond anything we know today.

The heart of VoxelSensors’ PERCEPT solution is the unique SPAES technology, which operates based on the fundamental constraints of physics. SPAES sensors detect single photons, generating ultra-high resolution data points at up to 100 million times per second with an unprecedented 10 ns refresh rate, providing low latency and low power for 3D sensing, imaging and eye tracking combined with unique CMOS technology SPAD based sensors on events.

The key advantages of the SPAES architecture include:

Extreme energy efficiency: achieved thanks to single photon sensitivity.
Unmatched latency: Single photon detection ensures minimal latency.
Ambient light immunity: SPAES sensors reject interference from ambient light.
Simplified processing: Sequential data streams simplify data processing.

PERCEPT from VoxelSensors leverages these capabilities to create a continuous, serialized data stream optimized for low compute and memory requirements. This flexibility enables real-time tuning of the density-latency trade-off, solving engineering challenges in handheld and mobile device architectures that previously had to trade-off between power, latency and performance. With these features, devices will be able to understand gestures, recognize physical salience, record user historical decisions, and intuitively perceive user tasks, which will significantly contribute to understanding user attention and intentions at a human level.

Our goal is to lead the way for natural interaction in wearable devices. Therefore, we cordially invite you to meet us at AWE USA 2024 or contact us directly to discuss cooperation in accelerating the development of our Empathic Computing platform.

VoxelSensors will showcase PERCEPT along with details of upcoming Andromeda 3 evaluation kits featuring the improved third-generation SPAES sensor at AWE USA in Long Beach, California, June 18-20, 2024 (booth #927).

Information about Voxel sensors

VoxelSensors develops breakthrough sensing technology for spatial and empathetic interfaces and mobile, XR and industrial applications. Powered by VoxelSensors’ Single Photon Active Event Sensor (SPAES), VoxelSensors’ PERCEPT technology combines unparalleled low-power, low-latency and spatial awareness eye tracking capabilities. PERCEPT by VoxelSensors enhances wearables and mobile devices with empathetic abilities to understand user attention and intentions, providing an augmented reality experience that feels natural to us.

Breaking the barrier of experience with unprecedented levels of immersion and interaction, VoxelSensors aims to unlock the full potential of immersive and autonomous experiences and AI assistants. PERCEPT developed by VoxelSensors enables devices to become more intuitive, responsive and empathetic, fundamentally changing the user experience in smartphones, wearables and industrial applications.

Contact for press information:

Karina Kovalenko – Marketing and Communication Manager
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://voxelsensors.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/voxelsensors

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