[games_access] Tobii and SteelSeries team up to launch eye-trackinggame controller

[Sandra Uhling]

Hi,

maybe we should collect useful information

about eye control and give it to Valve? J

 

Regards,

Sandra

 

Von: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] Im
Auftrag von Barrie Ellis
Gesendet: Montag, 6. Januar 2014 10:53
An: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
Betreff: Re: [games_access] Tobii and SteelSeries team up to launch
eye-trackinggame controller

 

Hmm... Maybe this is what is needed to get the price of eye-trackers down
and into the mainstream, but it doesn't look like it will do anything for
game accessibility straight away. It could be just be another set of
controls to add to others that are used already. It could make games even
less accessible to many. I guess a few people will make interesting
gaze-only games which would be great, but if it uses closed proprietary
interface/software that will be bad news.

 

I haven't read anything saying it can be used as a mouse emulator over Win 8
from the go.

 

I do wonder what happened to this:

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/4tiitoo/nuia-eyecharm-kinect-to-eye-trac
king/
<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/4tiitoo/nuia-eyecharm-kinect-to-eye-tra
cking/posts/710837?at=BAh7CDoMcG9zdF9pZGkDtdgKSSIIdWlkBjoGRVRpAycYAUkiC2V4cG
lyeQY7BlRJIhgyMDE0LTAyLTAzIDIyOjA0OjIxBjsGVA%3D%3D--8796e66b3a3a4800ccfaf974
707265ba1cd3c7f0&ref=backer_project_update>  - the plan was for a $60
clip-on device and software to complement the now very cheap to buy Kinect
for Xbox 360. What a shame that fell through. I'm guessing a big name or two
felt threatened by it and got legal, but I could be wrong.

 

Affordable off-the-shelf eye-gaze control over the mouse seems not too far
away now, but it's not here yet so far as I can see.

 

Barrie

 

 

 

From: Thomas Westin <mailto:thomas at westin.nu>  

Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 1:07 AM

To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List <mailto:games_access at igda.org>


Subject: [games_access] Tobii and SteelSeries team up to launch
eye-trackinggame controller

 

http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/03/tobii-steelseries-eye-tracking-game-acces
sory/

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Kind regards,
Thomas

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