Tobii Lets You Destroy Asteroids With Your Eyes; We Go Eyes-On - gonzalezesifer88

A laptop with the Tobii sensor below the cover.

You know that you can control your laptop computer with your mouse, trackpad, and keyboard–and you may even know that you can control your laptop with your voice, and maybe elaborate gestures thanks to motion-tracking devices such as Microsoft's Kinect. But did you know that you can also control your laptop with your eyes?

Sweden-based Tobii Technology has developed eye-tracking technology that allows you to control your laptop and opposite devices using only your eyes. Seriously, just your eyes–you don't even suffer to put connected disfigured glasses or a weird headland contraption, all you have to answer is sit down in forepart of the computer.

Tobii is built into the laptop, which is ready-made by Lenovo, and is located under the screen. It's actually bad simple (well, sort of). It industrial plant away shot infrared lights into your eyes to make red-eye (sounds dangerous, I recognize, but they assure me it's dead safe). By doing this, Tobii is able to make up a 3D model of your eyeball and specify where your eye is relative to space. Information technology then tracks the glint off of your eye to determine where your foveal vision, or sharp central vision, is, and, consequently, where you're looking.

I got to look into the technology at CES Disclosed–and I must say, I'm impressed. Ab initio there's or s calibration, but it's beautiful quick and slowly. Every you have to do is sit in front of the figurer and follow the flashing dots on the screen with your eyes–there are about cinque in amount. This is a one-time calibration, as erstwhile you've calibrated it the computer knows where your eyes are.

The particular version I was using was a laptop computer version (they as wel had a desktop and an arcade game on display), then information technology whole kit and caboodle from about 29 inches aside. The arcade game version works from about three feet away.

Once the standardisation is finished (it but takes about thirty seconds), you can start eye-dominant your device like a sho. For the monstrance the Tobii team had a game called EyeAsteroids, which is also an arcade game. EyeAsteroids is superior simple: completely you have to do is look at an angular hurtling through space toward your major planet and it wish be burned-over.

There are a few other uses for Tobii technology in a non-amusement environment. For instance, the technology can track your eye movement when you're reading a papers and mechanically scroll down when you reach the end of the page. Also, the technology allows you to zoom into a particular area of the screen door just by looking at that part of the screen and using your mouse's roll wheel.

In Telecasting: Tobii Eye-Tracking Demonstration At CES 2012

At the moment, Tobii technology isn't quite ready for consumers–though Tobii has developed a Regard Interface for the upcoming Windows 8–but information technology's still jolly cool and I can attest to its truth. It's non a replacement for your mouse or your keyboard, either, since you stool't blink to cluck surgery anything cool equal that (because, later all, you blink a batch to a greater extent often than you click connected things), it's just an additional way to interact with your device.

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