camera in your monitor

killingpeople · Nov 2005

i don't frequent advertisment guru news channels often but, while collecting resources for a research paper i stumbled on an interesting blog entry about a technology that is being developed to track eye-movements with a camera inside the monitor that creates an eye-activity heat-map.

read more here

the thought of cameras inside monitors is creepy-cool.

i would think this type of technology would be rather useful for game testing dudes.

Soul_Reaper · Nov 2005

Looks like they're more interested with the marketing and advertising applications.

ElysiumGX · Nov 2005

Everything resembling an ad will be black, and everything resembling a nipple or tight booty will be bright red. The leaps we're making with today's technology.

MoP · Nov 2005

That's pretty cool. It'd definitely be useful for testing feedback on usability of websites and game UI's and stuff.

rooster · Nov 2005

what would really be cool is if someone figured out a way to use it as an input device

MoP · Nov 2005

No, because then if it moved a pointer where you were looking, you'd keep trying to look at the pointer and follow its movement, and you'd end up stuck in some sort of infinite loop and die!

adam · Nov 2005

When I was little the Science Centre in Toronto, ON. had something like this setup. It was pretty neat, and if you were good enough with it you could write something with your eyes.

Creepy-cool for sure.

Sean McBride · Nov 2005

hahaha well thats why you'd not have a pointer at all. You would just look at it and ... uhm... "click" somehow. ;D

very interesting stuff.

I remember at some point i was reading about eye movement tracking using lines and them overlaying it on the picture that was being looked at. Funny how the tracking looks nothing like you'd expect it to look.

aesir · Nov 2005

mmmm so now when someone hacks your computer, they can watch you out through your own monitor?

MoP · Nov 2005

Yeah, and that'll be so useful! They'll be able to pose as you by adopting the same haircut, or something...

Mark Dygert · Nov 2005

The new ad ware blockers will be sunglasses... Look to Norton to put out the worst kind but they will be the most popular.

FREE MONITOR! as long as you sign up for AOL for a year!

Instead of clicks per hour site traffic will be monitored by "blinks her min".

hawken · Nov 2005

quite usefull for placement of advertising. they need to change the way these things are charged out at anyway.

Zergxes · Nov 2005

I played a psycho skiing game about 10 years ago where you put your finger on a pad and it tracked impulses from your brain. You basically willed the thing to turn you left or right. It was unsettling, but addictive. I imagine a game tracking your eyes would feel the same way. People would probably need a barfbag to cope with it.

Toomas · Nov 2005

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Fighter plane manufacturers have that kind of technology in their sims allready.

KDR_11k · Nov 2005

If they use that to place ads in even more annoying places they can fuck right off.

Rick Stirling · Nov 2005

The new G5 macs all have a firewire camera built in, which I beleive is also the receiver for the included infrared remote.

Timex · Nov 2005

Really cool idea

,i see time ago a thing for control the mouse (arrow) with the eyes movement

, jejej cheats for the railgun :P.

Mishra · Nov 2005

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I played a psycho skiing game about 10 years ago where you put your finger on a pad and it tracked impulses from your brain. You basically willed the thing to turn you left or right. It was unsettling, but addictive. I imagine a game tracking your eyes would feel the same way. People would probably need a barfbag to cope with it.

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god i hate things like that. theres also games where you can control things with your eyes, or brainwaves in some cases. the games themselves are very rudimentary, but they are so fucking creepy to play i couldnt imagine them being mainstream anytime soon.

Josh_Singh · Nov 2005

Now this Sh!t's Fuckt up:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9816703

gauss · Nov 2005

yeah that story is pretty damn scary.

i don't know about you, but my desire for immersion stops at around rumble packs. i don't need to feel the g-force in a plane or racing sim. the eye-sensing stuff and whatnot is just fine, but there's something to be said for sensory "distance" from your vicarious experience. which i think is part of why Smell-o-Vision never took off. some senses are better off being evoked instead of actively provoked.

aesir · Nov 2005

yea, thats creepy.

What I want is that device that messes with your inner ear so you can get the feeling of speed in a racing game or a flight simulator.

BRUTICUS(CW) · Nov 2005

how bout using your eyes to select HUD controls activating them with voice commands. Or to make game characters able to look you directly in the eye. Or for teammates to follow your gaze to see what you're looking at when you make a sudden motion.

StrangeFate · Nov 2005

Would be great for a dating game, You'd have to do some eye flirting in a disco!
omg, i'm smrt!

camera in your monitor

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