$30 Gadget lets you control computer with your eyes - Polidicks

[img]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120921010223-glasses-eye-controller-story-top.jpg[/img] [quote](CNN) -- Take two video-game console cameras and one pair of horn-rimmed glasses and for around $30 you have a device that will allow you to control a computer or, potentially, even a wheelchair with your eyes. Previously, if you wanted to buy similar eye-tracking equipment it would have cost you upwards of $8,000. Now, scientists in London have pioneered a device, the GT3D, using components anyone of us can buy from the shopping mall. The breakthrough could help millions of people suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy and, potentially, opens the door to a new era of hands-free computers, allowing us to use them without a mouse, keyboard or touch screen. For the lead researcher Dr Aldo Faisal, a neuroscientist at Imperial College in London, the new device only came about because of his obsession with disassembling gadgets. "We originally created the device for £39.80 ($64) but recent falls in the price of video game console cameras mean we could now actually make the same device for about £20 ($32) "I like to play with gadgets and was playing with a popular video-game console," he said. "I hacked it and discovered it was very fast and better than any webcam for movement. Actually, it was so fast that I found we could record eye movement with it." Tracking eye movement is no mean feat. Our eyes moves 10 to 20 times a second, so a standard webcam or even film camera will miss most eye movements and where we are looking. As such, it is perhaps no surprise commercial eye-tracking devices are so expensive. Luckily for Faisal and his team of researchers, video game console makers have been willing to bulk buy the technology needed to make good enough cameras. They make a loss on the console cameras in the expectation of making it back on accompanying video game sales. "We originally created the device for £39.80 ($64) but recent falls in the price of video game console cameras mean we could now actually make the same device for about £20 ($32)," says Faisal. The eye-tracking device works by first establishing where the eyes are looking, through a relatively straight-forward calibration process. The user puts on the glasses, with the two attached cameras, and stares at a computer screen full of dots. They are then told to look at different dots, with software developed by the researchers working out how the eye looks at each dot. Once calibrated, the device can be used to control a mouse on the screen and is so accurate that if you were in a normal-sized room and wearing the device it would be able to locate where you were looking to within the size of a grapefruit, say its developers. Existing commercially available devices such as the Tobii PCEye and the EyeTech TM3 also allow users to control a computer with their eye instead of a mouse. Like the GT3D, they use two cameras and say they can be used to surf the web, send emails and do anything a handheld mouse can do -- but they are priced between around $5,000 and $7,000. And if you search online, you will find many amateur attempts to create eye-tracking devices just like the GT3D. But Faisal says the difference with his is that it has been properly tested and proven to work -- a demonstration of his device has been published in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Neuroscience. Unsurprisingly, the interest in his technology has been huge, he says. Several companies have already approached him to develop and mass-produce the device. However, Faisal says, none have so far embraced his ambition for making it available at a low cost to millions. Instead, they all preferred to undercut existing eye-tracking devices by 10%. "My mission is that we forge technology with neurological science to find ways to help millions of people with disabilities, such as loss of limbs or muscular disorders, use technology in a cheap way," said Faisal. "We want to make sure people can buy the device for no more than £80 ($125)." If no commercial partner comes forward within the next year or two, Faisal says they will publish all the information about their device and software online and make it freely available for anyone to replicate. For many disability campaigners, such a device cannot come soon enough. "Those with extreme muscle-wastage in their arms often rely on carers to work on a computer, cannot position themselves comfortably at a keyboard and quickly suffer fatigue from typing," says Dr Marita Pohlschmidt, director of research at the UK-based Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, who calls it a "potentially life-changing innovation." "It also offers us an exciting glimpse of future possibilities -- optical control of hoists, beds, blinds, kitchen and entertainment equipment. The impact of recovering the independence to do such things for disabled people, their carers -- and for family life -- would be vast,' she adds. Faisal says it would already be possible to control a wheelchair with their device. The main obstacle is how to differentiate between where someone is looking at where they actually want to move to in the wheelchair. He says this has been overcome by his researchers through the use of a wink as a command trigger. "We use a wink rather than a blink because you never wink by accident," explained Faisal. However, while he can see its popularity for disabled or elderly people, Faisal remains uncertain about whether cheap eye-tracking devices are ready to take over from the mouse and touch-screen computers. "Perhaps it will bring in a new era of hands-free computers. But there is a problem in that the computer industry is moving towards touch systems with the iPad, so I'm not sure the mass-market is going to embrace eye-movement just yet. Also, I am not sure it is ready for use with complicated applications like, for example, Photoshop."[/quote] [url]http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/24/tech/mci-eye-tracking-gadget/index.html?web[/url]

I want it.

Stephen Hawking use some shit like this to talk, doesn't he? Anyway... [QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;37822588]I want it.[/QUOTE]

What about this? [video=youtube;ZKA2-zvinQc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKA2-zvinQc[/video]

This is really awesome, a lot of people are going to benefit from this.

augmented vision etc.

They've chosen a fine pair of glasses. [t]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m525q2vYkY1qf2p37o2_500.png[/t]

Good for people who can't play the ordinary way, useless for people who can.

How did something like that use to cost $8000. It's just a set of glasses, two cameras and some crafty programming. [editline]27th September 2012[/editline] You could aim at players WITH YOUR EYES.

[QUOTE=leontodd;37822767]How did something like that use to cost $8000. It's just a set of glasses, two cameras and some crafty programming. [editline]27th September 2012[/editline] You could aim at players WITH YOUR EYES.[/QUOTE] R&D, yo.

how would you click and if you were watching or reading something, your cursor would always be where you were looking, if there even is a cursor in this scenario

[QUOTE=Hullu V3;37822705]Good for people who can't play the ordinary way, useless for people who can.[/QUOTE] You might want to be able to control your aiming direction with a mouse, but viewing and focusing with your eyes. I saw some nifty YouTube video in which head bobbing and DoF was adjusted according to where you were looking, not where you were aiming.

blink to click

[QUOTE=ThePuska;37822863]You might want to be able to control your aiming direction with a mouse, but viewing and focusing with your eyes. I saw some nifty YouTube video in which head bobbing and DoF was adjusted according to where you were looking, not where you were aiming.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;6NOirrwNY_Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NOirrwNY_Y&feature=related[/video] This?

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[QUOTE=leontodd;37822767]How did something like that use to cost $8000. It's just a set of glasses, two cameras and some crafty programming. [editline]27th September 2012[/editline] You could aim at players WITH YOUR EYES.[/QUOTE] I guess you didn't read. At all. Most camera's can't pick up the delicate and rapid movements our eyes take, therefore any technology that could do this, used very high cost camera's, thus the price. Now, we have incredibly cheap camera's that can do this particular function well, hence the price.

I remember having some software that worked with my webcam when I was 13. What it did was track the direction of your face, and move the mouse according to you rotated your head. To click/right-click, you needed to blink or open your mouth. It was so weird.

[QUOTE=Void Skull;37822840]how would you click and if you were watching or reading something, your cursor would always be where you were looking, if there even is a cursor in this scenario[/QUOTE] Hook up a microphone, program it to left click every time you make a certain pitched shriek. This would lead to situations where you're rapidly rolling your eyes around and shrieking at the monitor, and the best part is, you could justify doing it. Definitely worth 30 bucks.

[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;37823915]Hook up a microphone, program it to left click every time you make a certain pitched shriek. This would lead to situations where you're rapidly rolling your eyes around and shrieking at the monitor, and the best part is, you could justify doing it. Definitely worth 30 bucks.[/QUOTE] I'm going to have nightmares about people rolling their eyes spastically and shrieking in wheelchairs and on smartphones/laptops now. Holy shit that's a scary image.

[quote]Unsurprisingly, the interest in his technology has been huge, he says. Several companies have already approached him to develop and mass-produce the device. However, Faisal says, none have so far embraced his ambition for making it available at a low cost to millions. Instead, they all preferred to undercut existing eye-tracking devices by 10%. "My mission is that we forge technology with neurological science to find ways to help millions of people with disabilities, such as loss of limbs or muscular disorders, use technology in a cheap way," said Faisal. "We want to make sure people can buy the device for no more than £80 ($125)."[/quote] Awesome of them to think of people over profit, too few would do that. [editline]27th September 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Erasus;37823107]blink to click[/QUOTE] Winking might work better, because you will need to blink more than you will need to click.

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I swear I've read this before [editline]5th January 2013[/editline] Oh it's an old article that was bumped that's why :v:

Would be neat to use in conjunction with flight sims or ArmA if its not that invasive.

[QUOTE=laserguided;39103865]Would be neat to use in conjunction with flight sims or ArmA if its not that invasive.[/QUOTE] look up in the thread like 10 posts

i've played dirt3 with this technology. it's surprisingly easy to get used to

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;39103913]look up in the thread like 10 posts[/QUOTE] TrackIR requires you to move your entire head if thats what you were referencing.