Your devices follow your commands through typing, scrolling, mouse movement and even your voice. Now they can also know what you’re looking at through the power of eye tracking.
An eye tracker, like the one found in the Alienware 17, is made up of illuminators and sensors that can calculate your gaze point on the screen. Once the eye tracker is calibrated, you can go on using your device the way you normally would. And that’s the point of Tobii’s eye tracking technology. It creates a more natural interface through the natural movement of your eyes.
Your device now has a greater grasp of your intentions. It gains insights into how you use it. Your interactions with whatever is in front of you feels more intuitive. You become immersed in your experience because, essentially, your eyes and notebook are communicating with each other. In a very real way.
The technologies that are embraced by people all over the world are not the ones that make us feel like extensions of our machines. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. People embrace technologies that provide powerful human experiences by tapping into our human senses. That give us emotional rewards. For years, people have toiled to understand their devices.
At Tobii, we work on ways our devices can understand us. Through the power of eye tracking and all its immersive qualities, we’re helping human/computer relations evolve. So that using your device is not just functional, but fun.
Unfortunately, we’ll never really develop actual super powers. But hey, who needs them when you can play a game where one of the characters reacts to your eye contact. Or lock a target by looking at it before pressing the trigger key. And this is only when you take a glimpse into the world that eye tracking opens you up to.
There are over 45 games that have Tobii eye tracking baked right in, with dozens more coming. Check out the full, updated game list at tobiigaming.com.