We tested some eye-tracking software like this at CeBIT this year but this takes the concept to a whole other level. It’s basically a system for tracking your gaze that has been retrofitted to work with WoW. Why? I guess it could let the handicapped or, sadly, the catastrophically lazy, play the game without having to touch a keyboard. My money is on the former.
Eye-gaze systems bounce infrared light from LEDs at the bottom of a computer monitor and track a person’s eye movements using stereo infrared cameras. This setup can calculate where on a screen the user is looking with an accuracy of about 5 mm.
Very cool. Never mind the productivity and communication advantages of this system, I can imagine that for those with disabilities having a virtual world for them to interact in with might be a way for them to experience a mobility that they do not usually have.
If I understand it properly, this system should also allow for a huge leap in realism for 3d graphics because it would allow you to do something you can’t now: depth of field — your eyes could focus on an object in a rendered scene and the areas at different distances would blur, just like how your eyes work, but reversed sort of, since your eyes aren’t refocusing on distance, the scene is.
This technology is from Tobii Technology. Our Assistive Technology division sells eye control technology to people with disabilities. The best thing about our technology – other than that it works – is that you don’t have to keep your head still to use it.
The technology is also used in:
Scientific research – Where do babies look? (What do babies understand?)
Market research – Do you notice the product, or just the model, in our ad?
Web design – Can people find their way around our page?
With this technology and brain control computer, all currently used input devices could be replaced.
Prepare to say goodbye to keyboard and mouse in 10 years!
this is a good invention and a bad one the good news is if someone doesnt have arms hey have the oppurtunity to playwith their eyes but the nad part is the red laser going in ur eyes which can produce a number of side effects such as pink eye, nashusniss,dihara, and worst case scenario is blindness. but overall its a 67% chance u will get these more because ur looking in computer and typing and a red laser looking at ur eyes so its double the light in ur eyes which has a lot more chance to have those side effecti say stick with the old school mouse and keyboard but if u wanna have ur eye messed up go ahead and try this new gadget i doubt it will be used in regular companies but in big lawsuit compss. might be used so all u gamers out there be careful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
o yeah and i foregot to tell u might lol or rofl alot im going to 6th grade so this is a big deal to me cause i dont wanna be blind