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Review of Hands Free Mouse

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the look-ma-no-hands dept.

SLDave wrote in to plug his review of NaturalPoint's hands free mouse that covered by Slashdot some time ago. It seems to work as advertised, using a camera to track your head and replace your mouse, but with a lot of caveats. Definitely worth a look for us truly lazy folks.

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  1. Review on DansData by iamr00t · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check it out
    As always, humor included :)

  2. Uneven cursor speed at screen edges? by realgone · · Score: 4, Informative
    I can't say for sure, since I haven't tried the thing, but wouldn't having the camera track a silver dot on your forehead result in slower cursor speed the farther you move it from the center of the screen?

    What I mean to say is that your head doesn't move in a purely horizontal (or vertical) fashion; rather, it swivels atop your neck. So as one nears the extremes -- trying to move the cursor to the right screen edge, for instance -- there would be less purely horizontal motion for the camera to detect, since the silver dot is describing a curve.

    Maybethe product compensates for this at the edges? Or detects depth? I don't know, but I'd be interested in finding out.