[games_access] Fwd: AW: Tobii and SteelSeries team up to launch eye-trackinggame controller

Fri Jan 10 03:22:16 EST 2014

Update on the EyeTribe: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/08/the-eye-tribe/

Hoping to be the worlds first affordable (sub $100 USD) eye-tracker. If
that can control mouse movement on a PC I'll be getting one for sure.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Barrie Ellis <oneswitch at gmail.com>
Date: 6 January 2014 22:53
Subject: Re: AW: [games_access] Tobii and SteelSeries team up to launch
eye-trackinggame controller
To: games_access at igda.org, Sandra Uhling <sandra_uhling at web.de>

 Small update to list with MyGaze...

 *From:* Barrie Ellis <oneswitch at gmail.com>
*Sent:* Monday, January 06, 2014 10:04 PM
*To:* games_access at igda.org ; Sandra Uhling <sandra_uhling at web.de>
*Subject:* Re: AW: [games_access] Tobii and SteelSeries team up to launch
eye-trackinggame controller

Good idea, Sandra. Mick and Bill Donegan at SpecialEffect are both more
knowledgeable about this stuff than me, so I'll ask them too.

I'm definitely concerned that the myriad affordable game focussed
eye-trackers won't have mouse control, and as such, won't be very useful
for disabled people that typically need this technology. I think it would
be good for Valve (and Sony via SMI) hear the message that a lot of
eye-tracker users exist already, using pointer based systems, and it's
important not to shut them out of the games unnecessarily. Also that a lot
of potential users will be using eye-gaze as their core form of control.
Any other/opposing thoughts out there? Here's some bits I'm aware of:

Eye Tribe Tracker: https://theeyetribe.com/ (most hopeful perhaps and "$99")
SMI have some interesting stuff with PS4 links:
http://www.smivision.com/oem-eye-tracking/index.html and
http://switchgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/eye-tracking-on-ps4-proof-of-concept.html
Tobii EyeX: http://www.tobii.com/en/eye-experience/ ("$95" but can't see
them using this to undercut their more expensive devices with full OS mouse
control)
MyGaze: http://www.mygaze.com/ + info from Mick Donegan here:
http://www.specialeffect.org.uk/specialeffect-news/eye-gaze-for-500-we-take-a-look

NUIA EyeCharm: http://www.4tiitoo.com/ - out of the running so it seems.
Gaze Group: Free open source stuff: http://www.gazegroup.org/downloads

And this is all very good stuff: http://www.cogain.org/info/eye-data-quality

Best wishes,

Barrie

 *From:* Sandra Uhling <sandra_uhling at web.de>
*Sent:* Monday, January 06, 2014 6:42 PM
*To:* 'Barrie Ellis' <oneswitch at gmail.com> ; 'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG
Mailing List' <games_access at igda.org>
*Subject:* AW: [games_access] Tobii and SteelSeries team up to launch
eye-trackinggame controller

 Hi,

maybe we should collect useful information

about eye control and give it to Valve? J

Regards,

Sandra

*Von:* games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] *Im
Auftrag von *Barrie Ellis
*Gesendet:* Montag, 6. Januar 2014 10:53
*An:* IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
*Betreff:* Re: [games_access] Tobii and SteelSeries team up to launch
eye-trackinggame controller

Hmm... Maybe this is what is needed to get the price of eye-trackers down
and into the mainstream, but it doesn't look like it will do anything for
game accessibility straight away. It could be just be another set of
controls to add to others that are used already. It could make games even
less accessible to many. I guess a few people will make interesting
gaze-only games which would be great, but if it uses closed proprietary
interface/software that will be bad news.

I haven't read anything saying it can be used as a mouse emulator over Win
8 from the go.

I do wonder what happened to this:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/4tiitoo/nuia-eyecharm-kinect-to-eye-tracking/<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/4tiitoo/nuia-eyecharm-kinect-to-eye-tracking/posts/710837?at=BAh7CDoMcG9zdF9pZGkDtdgKSSIIdWlkBjoGRVRpAycYAUkiC2V4cGlyeQY7BlRJIhgyMDE0LTAyLTAzIDIyOjA0OjIxBjsGVA%3D%3D--8796e66b3a3a4800ccfaf974707265ba1cd3c7f0&ref=backer_project_update>
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the plan was for a $60 clip-on device and software to complement the now
very cheap to buy Kinect for Xbox 360. What a shame that fell through. I'm
guessing a big name or two felt threatened by it and got legal, but I could
be wrong.

Affordable off-the-shelf eye-gaze control over the mouse seems not too far
away now, but it's not here yet so far as I can see.

Barrie

*From:* Thomas Westin <thomas at westin.nu>

*Sent:* Saturday, January 04, 2014 1:07 AM

*To:* IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List <games_access at igda.org>

*Subject:* [games_access] Tobii and SteelSeries team up to launch
eye-trackinggame controller

http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/03/tobii-steelseries-eye-tracking-game-accessory/

Download information for Engadget at http://www.engadget.com/apps/

Kind regards,
Thomas

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