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Now You Can Control Any Win 8 Kit With Your Eyes
iComp writes "It's all gestures and eyeball-tracking at CES this year, with Tobii releasing a USB peripheral that adds control-by-sight to any Windows PC and Lenovo upgrading its Yoga to finger-watching. Tobii demonstrated its eyeball-tracking technology at CES last year, but this time it is announcing a 5,000 unit production run of a USB bar which can be stuck to the bottom of the monitor of any Windows 8 PC to start tracking eyeballs. Lenovo isn't even waiting that long. Although it is only tracking fingers, it's adding the capability to existing Yoga laptops courtesy of eyeSight Tech."
The question is:
Can this tech detect the shifty eyes of Win8 users searching for the Start-Button and display one?
How many people are going to end up cross-eyed from trying the pinch-to-zoom feature?
So now when I roll my eyes at the latest insult to my intelligence and workflow, Windows 8 will implement something better? Where do I sign up?
Perscriptio in manibus tabellariorum est.
When I move my wired mouse, the cursor moves 100% of the time. If this eye tracking stuff is even 99% accurate, it loses the mouse vs eyes contest and aggrivates the user. Touch, motion, eye-tracking, and all other assorted stupidity are all inferior to the controls we have now and are just fancy, futuristic gimmicks.
Hey there!
It looks like you're pissed off at the new interface! Can I:
1) Tell you to use it anyway
2) Not tell you about alternatives
3) Not show you how to install a different window manager
4) Offer you a paid upgrade to Win9
At first i read: you can control windows by your 8 eyes. But then i realized i am not a spider.
I understand pupil tracking to be pretty tough, so I'm not overly excited to try doing it on my own. But a useful HUD seems doable, and pupil tracking is what would really make it useful (aside from voice recognition, which is "good enough" already IMO, though clearly there is room for improvement.) Which peripheral should I be looking at for Linux support? I'm sure as shit not building a CarPC around Win8.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
...that Windows Me systems would crash if you looked at them funny.
Now Lenovo has turned that into a reality with Windows 8!
Just search the forums for 15 hours to watch some dudes argue with each other about the best way to get it working. Then give up because you can only get it to track one eye.
What happens if I give Win 8 the glare of death?
I just started thinking how weird this technology will be when I'm walking around the office and every one is rolling one eye around in their head to move the mouse cursor and twitching/blinking their other eye to control the clicking.
I know that's not how it actually works, but it's kind of funny to think about.
BTW, I have not ever and don't know anyone that's spent 15 hours trying to solve a Linux related issue. I'd normally give up after 2 and come back to it at a later date, I've never had to wait more than a month for someone else to solve a common issue. Windows on the other hand is a whole other kettle of fish, since only MS has the power to fix an issue with the OS and even then will pretend it doesn't exist or tote it as a "feature", then sell a fix for the issue in a new version of windows only to fuck something else up.
Seeing as rare eye blinking is one of the major causes of eye fatigue when using a screen, I guess that this device wont' make it any better ...
indeed.
I can see this being tremendously useful for people with paralysis or other disabilities and probably at a 10th the cost of current systems
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That's interesting. My roommate's Windows computer already seems to click on stuff when I'm not even touching the click bar.
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I'd have to look at it.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
British-like typing detected.
The eye tracking system must have recognized a british scowl on the submitters face and made some assumptions.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
But for those who are disabled, this technology is a godsend.
Tobii has been making these for a while for the AAC (adaptive and augmentive communication) devices. My wife has ALS, and can no longer speak, and cannot move her hands to use a stock text-to-speech app. This thing allows her to talk with me (albeit slowly), and is amazing.
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What if a gesture is looking from left to right to the screen and someone appears in your right? With voice commands speaking to someone else (or a background conversation) could have easily unintended consequences, even if you are careful, but for your eyes will be worse.
Hopely with it what has been seen could be unseen... i mean, undone.
If this thing works well the word I am trying to read will be covered up by the cursor.
Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
You'll still need your foot to kick it into the dumpster.
Oh, the beautiful gloss of greality!