Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available

Re:Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available by orangecat on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @07:15PM (#1892316)

You should be able to do that with a normal webcam, since you don't need depth information. I've thought of that too; I think there will be a similar interface when heads-up displays in glasses become viable.

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Re:Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available by a_m_kelly on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @08:34PM (#1892504)

I haven't been paying attention, but has eyetracking software gotten that good? Can you point to people or companies who are working on this, or currently available solutions?

I've been doing some usability testing stuff and it'd be nice to have eyetracking (especially paired with click/mouseover data.) and not much less helpful head/face tracking that is built into the webcam.

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Re:Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available by samlittlewood on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @09:15PM (#1892595)

Commercial use:

http://www.gazehawk.com/

Some open source:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gazetrackinglib/

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Re:Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available by spicyj on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @09:09PM (#1892582)

GazeHawk (YC funded) is, but the software isn't open.

http://www.gazehawk.com/

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Re:Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available by rbanffy on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @08:39PM (#1892514)

If I am wearing glasses it becomes much easier (3 IR LEDs, one webcam) to track where my head is turned.

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