Looky Here! Eye Tracking Coming to PCs
Ever wish your eyes were lasers? A Lenovo laptop prototype brings that wish closer to reality.
Touch screen and movement based technology is quickly supplanting the mouse as the standard way to interact with computers. But a company is looking down the road to make our interface with machines more user friendly.
Tobii is perfecting eye tracking so that a user can merely peer at the screen to point and click. The technology measures the distance between the pupil and the glint in the eyeball using lasers. Then it creates a 3-D model of where the user is looking. From there it’s just a matter of seeing to make the laptop go.
The goal is to make PCs more personal, faster and less reliant on outside tools, like keyboards or even fingers.
Practical computer applications are about two years away but many see eye tracking just around the computing corner.
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