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Gaze Detector Lets You Hear With Your Eyes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the doc-brown-rides-again dept.

tinkertim writes "Engadget is reporting that Manabe Hiroyuki has developed a personal 'being' assistant, the wearable headphone gaze detector. The device apparently takes notice of what you look at (and hear) and makes note of the more important events in your life that it records. From the article '[the device] is slightly less elegant than the traditional neural implant, with this system you could not only record the goings on of your days and "bookmark" important events, but also train the cameras to feed you information about your surroundings based on QR codes or possibly eventually object recognition; think of it as augmented aural reality triggered by giving a passing glance.'"

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  1. But the question is... by damburger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When the company that makes the software for this bundles spyware with it, how much are they going to make letting advertisers (and the occasional law enforcement agency) know what you've been looking at?

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  2. Hoax? by LordSnooty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To me it looks like a bloke wearing headphones with loads of wires coming out of it. I'm having difficulty believing that this device can record eye movements.

  3. How does this work? by pdr77 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does this actually follow your gaze without looking at your eyes? Surely the headphones can't be sensitive enough to pick up the neural or nervous signalling?

    Still, it seems quite rudimentary compared with other AR projects like Tinmith: http://www.tinmith.net/