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Shifty VS FOVE

Compare Shifty VS FOVE and see what are their differences

Shifty logo Shifty

More control over macOS Night Shift

FOVE logo FOVE

An eye tracking virtual reality headset (pre-launch)
  • Shifty Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-02-25
  • FOVE Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-05-07

Shifty videos

Review: Mr. Shifty (Steam & Switch) - Defunct Games

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  • Review - Mr. Shifty Video Review (Switch)
  • Review - 2020 ThirtyTwo Shifty BOA Snowboard Boots - 32

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Shifty and FOVE)
Browser Extension
100 100%
0% 0
Virtual Reality
0 0%
100% 100
Productivity
100 100%
0% 0
iPhone
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Shifty should be more popular than FOVE. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Shifty mentions (3)

  • Lunar [$8 off coupons] - adaptive brightness for external monitors
    Night Shift + Shifty is a much better choice than f.lux nowadays anyway. Source: over 1 year ago
  • f.lux
    It works better than f.lux for me, because it works at a lower level than Gamma table manipulation. I’ve been using Night Shift ever since it was released and I like its color rendering more than f.lux. But it’s subjective, some people like the extreme warmth of f.lux more. It depends on how you perceive colors and how well you can adjust to warmer colors. Shifty is also a very nice addition if you want more... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
  • f.lux
    Lunar developer here. Thanks for mentioning it! Just a note to avoid confusion: Lunar serves a completely different purpose than f.lux. f.lux changes the colour temperature by altering the Gamma tables. Lunar's main function is controlling the hardware brightness/contrast/volume/input/colors of external monitors using DDC and private macOS methods. Macos also has native approach to f.lux called Night Shift. I use... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

FOVE mentions (1)

  • HISTORY OF VR CONSUMER ERA: NOT ONLY OCULUS - Reddit Edition
    I cannot tackle every existing or existed device, sorry. You cannot find here products aimed at enterprises and professionals, like the StarVROne, the Varjo VR-3 or the XTAL. For historical reasons, let me mention on the fly the first pioneering headset implementing eye tracking and foveated rendering, the FOVE 0, by Japanese company Fove. Initially welcomed by a successful international kickstarter campaign in... Source: about 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Shifty and FOVE, you can also consider the following products

f.lux - f. lux is a piece of software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android that provides a blue light filter over your screen. Research suggests limiting our exposure to blue light in the hours before bedtime can help us fall asleep faster.

WebGazer.js - Eye tracking on the browser

Flux - Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces

Eye Yoga - Improve eyesight, relieve eye strain and prevent presbyopia.

Darkness: Beautiful Dark Themes - Chrome extension that provides beautiful dark themes for Facebook, Google and more.

Jabberwocky - Communicate through text to speech by moving your head