Things Andy wants #1422 - an eye recognition unit

[andrewducker]

I now have two monitors set up on my desk. The 17" CRT on the left, the 17" LCD on the right. This is great in many ways, as I have my main typing window ahead of me, with other, less important programs (email and and uninstall) on the left. The only problem I have is that when I look from one window to the other, my cursor doesn't move with it. Several times now I'm looked left to a dialog and then clicked with a cursor that's still on the right-hand monitor.

How hard would it be to have a cursor that leapt to wherever my eyes were concentrating (if they looked for more than half a second, for instance)?

Comments

[juuro.livejournal.com]

That wouldn't quite work for me. But it's well known I'm weird.

You see, I usually have my eyes on the source, or reference, material, and I'm typing blind. Sometimes the text entry window is even moved nigh off-screen to make room for the reference material windows...

But otherwise, I agree, having a lot of acreage on the displays does call for some new methods of focus shifting. It used to be easy on Win 3.1.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Only a matter of time, I'd say. I suppose the pioneer in this field (in terms of the mass market) has been the eyetoy on the PS2 and that has been staggeringly popular.

I predict (Criswell style) that devices along simlar lines will become more sophisticated and cross over into the PC market.

[andrewducker]

I played with the eyetoy at the Game On exhibition. It was kinda fun, but I'd like to see a lot more stuff done with it. Lots of potential tho.