Just when we thought our world had almost reached its full potential when it comes to technological advancements, comes a software called Senseye .
A Copenhagen based project (which first gained momentum back in December of last year) that allows you to control your phone solely using your eyes, is quite intriguing we must admit.
We bet you might be asking yourself right now; how did they actually implement this? Well, the team behind this project has developed technology that tracks the movement of your eyes using the front-facing camera on mobile phone, which then allows you to control all sorts of aspects of the phone. Imagine sending texts, playing games and much more without the need to touch the handset at all.
Third-party apps shall be allowed to work with Senseye through a developer interface, and their strategy is to earn enough revenue through licensing the technology to manufacturers so as it can ultimately be integrated into the operating systems on handsets straight out of the box.
Senseye is not the first work exhibited by the team; an open source eye-tracking product called ITU Gaze Tracker is its predecessor. Its aim is a more humanitarian one targeted at disabled people who might not be able to use conventional interfaces.
On a lighter note, here is a video that we’ve recently stumbled upon and found quite an amusing implementation of this new technology.
Though, as you might conclude from this video, the system is still rather bulky with a preposterously expensive infrared camera and a built-in IR LEDs, and above all of that, it cannot be deemed new since it has been around since 2011.
Yet it is undeniable that with its custom calibration software, new dimensions are added to games such as Fruit Ninja; since a bomb explodes the second you look at it, peripheral vision is required in order to keep them out of your sight. Not to mention the speed at which fruit can now be sliced.
Ultimately, this would be very beneficial for the progression of multitouch screens as well as depth cameras like Kinect; this just might be the way the majority of our devices might work in a decade or two.
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