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MIT Researchers Bring JavaScript To Google Glass
colinneagle (2544914) writes "Earlier this week, Brandyn White, a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, and Scott Greenberg, a PhD candidate at MIT, led a workshop at the MIT Media Lab to showcase an open source project called WearScript, a JavaScript environment that runs on Google Glass. White demonstrated how Glass's UI extends beyond its touchpad, winks, and head movements by adding a homemade eye tracker to Glass as an input device. The camera and controller were dissected from a $25 PC video camera and attached to the Glass frame with a 3D-printed mount. A few modifications were made, such as replacing the obtrusively bright LEDs with infrared LEDs, and a cable was added with a little soldering. The whole process takes about 15 minutes for someone with component soldering skills. With this eye tracker and a few lines of WearScript, the researchers demonstrated a new interface by playing Super Mario on Google Glass with just eye movements."
the researchers demonstrated a new interface by playing Super Mario on Google Glass with just eye movements
Followed by the researchers demonstrating how to try and relieve a headache by massaging their temples with their thumbs.
Better known as 318230.
Flash will be next.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
At least this time we can blame Network World for the crappy headline, and not someone here at Slashdot. We can just blame them for not bothering to read the summary, much less the article.
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
So how long is it going to be before someone writes some sort of java script that blinds the user?
There are other kinds?
Because it's responsible for all the things people hate about web pages. Pop-up ads, pop under ads, floating ads, flash ads, flash exploits, java exploits....
A better question would be: What has javascript done that's GOOD?
I didn't know soldering some electronics together and porting a language to a platform is Ph.D. level work.
Agreed. This is my research http://scholar.google.com/cita... . WearScript is a tool that helps us in our current research (which is an extension of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ). When you do research you can either use tools that already exist or you can take a detour and invest in making better tools so you can do more effective research, that's what this is.