seeing machines

Friday, August 04, 2000, at 09:38PM

By Eric Richardson

This company claims to have perfected computer head tracking. Imagine the possiblities you could get from the computer responding to eyeball shifts... I want blink clicking...

I played a game on the SGI Indy once which did 3d head tracking for input. You were a flower trying to catch these droplets that fell around you. You did this by moving your head in 3d-space. Cool stuff, but it was pretty flakey. If they've got this working well it'll be awesome.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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