Samsung Develops Eye Mouse, Cursor That You Can Control With Your Eyes

[Tech_Dreamer]

Taking handsfree device to a whole new level

@OriginalPromise

 

EYECAN+, Samsungs latest innovative project looks very promising, EyeCan+ is the Samsungs Own second-generation eye mouse, The product is mainly aimed at allowing people with disabilities Giving them the ability to compose and edit documents as well as browse the web through simple eye movement

 

Samsung is not the first company to introduce this technology, if you're interested check this previous news thread post from me : (damn search function! :angry: will add in later when i find it)

 

What makes this device different is that it does not require users to wear any device, such as glasses. Instead, EYECAN+ is a single-unit, portable box that sits below the monitor, and works by wirelessly calibrating with the user's eye.

 

Samsung previously did a similar project on eye movement co-ordinated mice control but that was done via a secondary device which user had to wear such as a plain glass fitted with the capture equipment

 

early prototype back in 2012 with glasses

 

 

Back to the EyeCan product , because i can (ba dum tiss)

 

Once calibrated, the EYECAN+ user interface will appear as a pop-up menu in one of two different modes, rectangular menu board or floating menu wheel, both of which contain 18 different commands. Both menu types can be configured to remain at the fore of the screen.

 

The Team had been working on this project for over 17 months in total to bring it to this level

 

 

 

 

Commands include “copy,” “paste” and “select all,” as well as “drag and drop,” “scroll” and “zoom in.” Additional custom commands can also be created to include existing keystroke commands, such as “close program” (“Alt+F4”) and “print” (“Ctrl+P”).

 

The use of all 18 commands solely requires eye movement and blinking, and each command can be selected by looking directly at the relevant icon and blinking once.

 

 

EYECAN+ can remember each user’s eye characteristics.Calibration is only required for first-time users so it's as simple as that , Users can also adjust the sensitivity of EYECAN+ for both calibration and actual use. it requires the user to be situated between 60cm and 70cm from the monitor, and does not require the user to be in any specific position,

 

Pretty solid technology & can be useful for day to day usage, but currently they have developed this tech for only charitable agencies,it's not available outside of that. Rumor is that Samsung will also create open-source documents for the design and software, letting any individual or company commercialize it. That's a good sign

 

Please do post your review on this thread down belooooooooow, also tell me what you think about this ..

 

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Original Source: http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=44971

[DigitalHermit]

Take my money!

 

This can speed up my workflow considerably...

[Tech_Dreamer]

Take my money!

 

This can speed up my workflow considerably...

it's not out for regular use sadly only for charity now, probably some other company would start making it after they release the documentation

[WolfDeville]

Would love to have this

[-TesseracT-]

I think this would be slow and quite frustrating to use over time. 

[mr moose]

I saw something very similar over a decade ago, it was a camera that tracked where the eyes where looking and whether they were open or closed, it was being used with a vehicles onboard computer to detect if the driver was showing signs of being tired and slowing the car down bring it to a stop.

[Octagoncow]

This is very interesting. Hopefully this gains some traction in hospitals. 

[Thony]

Interesting. Imagine playing an FPS game with this, u blink and u gonna rage

[cesrai]

Came here thinking who in the world would use this, came out happy and sounding like an idiot.

[JAKEBAB]

This sounds like a waaaay more advanced version of there eye tracker on galaxy phones how u can scroll the page up and down with eye movements. This sounds great for people with dissabilities and will hopefully help until we have a good affordable way of giving people back those abillities they have lost or never had.