Indeed you are correct that they do use eye-tracking technology for military targeting systems
The most well known system in this case is that of the AH-64 Apache Helicopters. The pilot turns his head and the turret moves with him, the pilot focuses on a certain object in his HUD, the gun locks on and manuevers to shoot at this target.
I might be a little off, but I believe this is what I was told a couple years ago by a pilot of one of these beasts.
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I suppose that you are correct, however, not being a Vulcan my logic will never be perfect. Essentially what my thought process is however is that if you're going to be up there right now while they're still putting it together piece by piece and making it ready for experiments you shouldn't be having tourists up there looking around if you get my drift. I do realize that Tito isn't some idiot, though I admit that I make him out to be one;-) It's more of a case where I would rather see someone that is going to contribute to it right now.
With regard to giving your left testicle to go into space, that's quite a risk. Are you sure that you're willing to take it?
Reading this reminds me of a project that one of my professors here at the University of Virginia is workig on. It's called Project Erica (http://www.ericainc.com) and deals with Eye-gaze Response Interface Computer Aid. It's pretty incredible that this technology can be used for good. He brought in a setup that they use for disabled people and showed how you can type with your eye. Essentially they use the same system where they shine a little infrared light on your eye and then it makes a glint and the computer then watches the glint of your eye move. It's pretty cool. He even had a game that you could play using your eye for your cross hair and the keyboard for everything else.
In addition they were starting to use this technology the same way that IBM is, watching where customers eyes look on web pages to see what attracts the customers attention that most. The thing that I don't mind about this is that it will actually customize that web site for you a bit more hopefully, though it is a privacy issue that I doubt that I would ever want to be involved with.
One thing that is nice to know is that your eyes have to be somewhat stationary. If your body suddenly moves the camera won't know what to track or may begin tracking your cheek muscles by accident. This might be the point of the second infrared beam that they say that they use as it would be able to keep the acquistion of where your eye is.
One great thing to know is that this technology is worthless outside as the infrared will not be able to make your eye glint like it's supposed to and the camera won't have any idea of where you are:-)
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Having complete morons just flipping switches at random... I think that I saw enough of that when I was in an Electronics course at the University of Virginia. The number of pots that we smoked;-) and the number of ICs that we fried was too many to count. The bottom line is that people can definitely screw things up without meaning to and having people up there that are not trained professionals and have either a EE, Physics, CS, or some sort of real hard science/engineering background floating around and working is a waste of the taxpayers dollars. Some might argue that because he didn't go up in the Space Shuttle that it doesn't affect us. The consequence is though that there are three people there, consuming products that are up there rather than two. ..
Definitely is too bad that Mir isn't around to take people and let them play...
I think that it's definitely cool that you're able to track people this way, but I guess for me it's more a concern of who has this information. It goes back to Big Brother essentially, which I really dislike.
For those of you that think that I'm a loser for not willing to get a little implant, look at the alternative with computers like those made by Acer. Their top of the line, business laptop requires a thumb print verification before it will let you use the machine. Talk about cool, no more roommates messing with my machine:-)
The only thing that worries me in this situation is that the system of lights would have to have some sort of safety options. If for some reason the lighting system were able to emulate certain wavelengths at certain intensities, there is tremendous danger of this lighting system being used for harm. A student of computer science could easily change the lighting program so that it would do "interesting things" to those in the room.
I guess it's the whole idea of your computer turning on you as it's finally figured out that you're not going to let it post to/. That it will only be used as a means of input/ouput operations.
I think that is awesome that someone actually spent the time and harddrive space to support something like this. I know that for myself I will enjoy perusing the sports section of the Clari.net Orioles Baseball section. Plus, it will be interesting to be able to look back in the science sections, specifically the accoustics.physics newsgroup and read about the advances over the years. It will also serve as a great reference for papers that I intend to be writing in the next few years about accoustical systems.
Does anyone know if this is also tackling newsgroups on University systems?
Having been an advocate proponent of warning the public of the HailStorm services that Microsoft is pushing so hard I'm not surprised about Microsoft's current practices. Many people were once worried that the government would slowly make it so that you were entirely dependent on them. However it would seem that the government isn't the one to be concerned with in this practice anymore, rather it would be Microsoft.
It definitely is disturbing to think that they are willing to sue the user for misuse of our own information. The fact of the matter stands, IMHO, that Microsoft is basically trying to make the public think that they really hold all the answers. Quite frankly I think that it was a sign from God when the earth quake stuck last year and nearly made Seattle fall off the coast.
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Indeed you are correct that they do use eye-tracking technology for military targeting systems
The most well known system in this case is that of the AH-64 Apache Helicopters. The pilot turns his head and the turret moves with him, the pilot focuses on a certain object in his HUD, the gun locks on and manuevers to shoot at this target.
I might be a little off, but I believe this is what I was told a couple years ago by a pilot of one of these beasts.
I suppose that you are correct, however, not being a Vulcan my logic will never be perfect. Essentially what my thought process is however is that if you're going to be up there right now while they're still putting it together piece by piece and making it ready for experiments you shouldn't be having tourists up there looking around if you get my drift. I do realize that Tito isn't some idiot, though I admit that I make him out to be one ;-) It's more of a case where I would rather see someone that is going to contribute to it right now.
With regard to giving your left testicle to go into space, that's quite a risk. Are you sure that you're willing to take it?
Reading this reminds me of a project that one of my professors here at the University of Virginia is workig on. It's called Project Erica (http://www.ericainc.com) and deals with Eye-gaze Response Interface Computer Aid. It's pretty incredible that this technology can be used for good. :-)
He brought in a setup that they use for disabled people and showed how you can type with your eye. Essentially they use the same system where they shine a little infrared light on your eye and then it makes a glint and the computer then watches the glint of your eye move. It's pretty cool. He even had a game that you could play using your eye for your cross hair and the keyboard for everything else.
In addition they were starting to use this technology the same way that IBM is, watching where customers eyes look on web pages to see what attracts the customers attention that most. The thing that I don't mind about this is that it will actually customize that web site for you a bit more hopefully, though it is a privacy issue that I doubt that I would ever want to be involved with.
One thing that is nice to know is that your eyes have to be somewhat stationary. If your body suddenly moves the camera won't know what to track or may begin tracking your cheek muscles by accident. This might be the point of the second infrared beam that they say that they use as it would be able to keep the acquistion of where your eye is.
One great thing to know is that this technology is worthless outside as the infrared will not be able to make your eye glint like it's supposed to and the camera won't have any idea of where you are
Having complete morons just flipping switches at random... I think that I saw enough of that when I was in an Electronics course at the University of Virginia. The number of pots that we smoked ;-) and the number of ICs that we fried was too many to count. The bottom line is that people can definitely screw things up without meaning to and having people up there that are not trained professionals and have either a EE, Physics, CS, or some sort of real hard science/engineering background floating around and working is a waste of the taxpayers dollars. .
Some might argue that because he didn't go up in the Space Shuttle that it doesn't affect us. The consequence is though that there are three people there, consuming products that are up there rather than two. .
Definitely is too bad that Mir isn't around to take people and let them play...
I think that it's definitely cool that you're able to track people this way, but I guess for me it's more a concern of who has this information. It goes back to Big Brother essentially, which I really dislike.
:-)
For those of you that think that I'm a loser for not willing to get a little implant, look at the alternative with computers like those made by Acer. Their top of the line, business laptop requires a thumb print verification before it will let you use the machine. Talk about cool, no more roommates messing with my machine
The only thing that worries me in this situation is that the system of lights would have to have some sort of safety options. If for some reason the lighting system were able to emulate certain wavelengths at certain intensities, there is tremendous danger of this lighting system being used for harm. A student of computer science could easily change the lighting program so that it would do "interesting things" to those in the room.
/. That it will only be used as a means of input/ouput operations.
I guess it's the whole idea of your computer turning on you as it's finally figured out that you're not going to let it post to
I think that is awesome that someone actually spent the time and harddrive space to support something like this. I know that for myself I will enjoy perusing the sports section of the Clari.net Orioles Baseball section. Plus, it will be interesting to be able to look back in the science sections, specifically the accoustics.physics newsgroup and read about the advances over the years. It will also serve as a great reference for papers that I intend to be writing in the next few years about accoustical systems.
Does anyone know if this is also tackling newsgroups on University systems?
Having been an advocate proponent of warning the public of the HailStorm services that Microsoft is pushing so hard I'm not surprised about Microsoft's current practices. Many people were once worried that the government would slowly make it so that you were entirely dependent on them. However it would seem that the government isn't the one to be concerned with in this practice anymore, rather it would be Microsoft.
It definitely is disturbing to think that they are willing to sue the user for misuse of our own information. The fact of the matter stands, IMHO, that Microsoft is basically trying to make the public think that they really hold all the answers. Quite frankly I think that it was a sign from God when the earth quake stuck last year and nearly made Seattle fall off the coast.