Talk about hands-off! The upcoming SteelSeries Sentry is a gaming
peripheral that you can use to play certain video games with your eyes.
Touted as the first consumer eye-tracker, the Sentry will debut at the
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next month, and will ship
in late January 2015.
The Sentry's eye-tracking software is developed by Stockholm-based
Tobii Technology, who is already working with several game and app
developers to integrate eye-tracking controls. Recently, Tobii announced
a partnership with Pizza Hut to create Subconscious Menu, an app that
will design pizza orders based on which toppings you look at for the
longest.
A collaboration between Tobii and Copenhagen-based gaming hardware
company Steelseries, the Sentry is a sensor bar that can be attached to
the bottom of a computer screen. Gamers, developers and researchers can
use the Sentry to record their eye movements during a game, and study
that data to improve their play style or designs.
In addition, people who play online games like Starcraft II and DotA
2, and who stream their games online for other people to watch on
streaming services such as Twitch, can use the Sentry to show their
audiences what they're looking at in real time. This gives the audience a
window of insight into pros' fast-paced playing style. On January 6 and
7, popular streamers CEH9 and Wagamama will be demonstrating the Sentry
on their Twitch channels.
Overwolf, a platform that
makes overlay apps for PC games such as Guild Wars 2, League of Legends
and World of Warcraft, is also working with Tobii to create eye-tracked
apps that will let players engage with games in new ways.
But for people to be able to play directly with their eyes, Tobii
software needs to be integrated directly into the game's software. At
CES, Tobii will also launch Tobii Arcade, a collection of apps and games
whose "primary input" will be eye-tracking data. One of these is an
upcoming indie game called Son of Nor, in which players will be able to
use and control magical abilities such as fire and telekinesis using
their eyes.
Tobii says it's also working with "industry-leading partners in both
augmented and virtual reality" to incorporate its eye-tracking
technology into other gaming peripherals.
“2015 will be the year when eye tracking makes first entry into
consumer markets and consumers will have their first tangible
experiences with real eye tracking products in the wild, first with
gaming and then within computing, ergonomic, and medical environments,”
Tobii president Oscar Werner said in a statement.
source:tomsguide.com
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