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Re: If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

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Post by j45 »

FlamingMoe wrote: post #18

Not really a huge PG fan, but this is what billionaires should be doing: see where a need is exists and put some of your insane wealth towards making an improvement. This why I respect Elon even though I don’t really like him; he puts his money to use, in a very public manner.

Not sure if PG fits a billionaire stereotype.

YC was investing in ways the traditional VCs weren’t when it started, and coding HN was a part of it. I doubt I’m the only one who had having a few HN tech support emails from PG.

Re: If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

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Post by ta123456789 »

methou wrote: post #20
turnsout wrote: post #17

Someone should do this, but for the love of god, DO NOT take any venture capital to do it. No matter how well-intentioned the VCs are at the start, eventually your eye tracking startup will 100% be used for advertising as investors in your Series D need to make an exit or take you public.

eyetracking is already used by the advertisers in research for many many years, e.g: https://www.tobii.com/

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Re: If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

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Post by readyplayernull »

> A friend of mine has ALS and can only move his eyes. He has an eye-controlled keyboard, but it's not very good. Can you make him a better one?

When I worked for one of the big game engines I got contacted by the makers of the tech that Stephen Hawking used to communicate, which includes an eye tracker:

https://www.businessinsider.com/an-eye-tracking-interface-he...

Re: If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

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Post by [deleted] »

turnsout wrote: post #17

Someone should do this, but for the love of god, DO NOT take any venture capital to do it. No matter how well-intentioned the VCs are at the start, eventually your eye tracking startup will 100% be used for advertising as investors in your Series D need to make an exit or take you public.

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Post by Difwif »

pg wrote: post #7
fastball wrote: post #3

Is the lack of mentioning Apple deliberate? It seems like they've already poured a lot of R&D into this for the Vision Pro, which might be exactly the kind of thing the friend needs.

It's not available yet. And in any case if this is the future there should be multiple companies doing it, not just Apple.

Glad to see you still lurk around here. How do you think about going up against a company like Apple when it comes to patents in this space?

I think that would be my major hesitation but I don't have a lot of experience evaluating patents.

Apples Eye Tracking Patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180113508A1/en

Re: If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

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Post by [deleted] »

FlamingMoe wrote: post #18

Not really a huge PG fan, but this is what billionaires should be doing: see where a need is exists and put some of your insane wealth towards making an improvement. This why I respect Elon even though I don’t really like him; he puts his money to use, in a very public manner.

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Re: If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

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Post by turnsout »

methou wrote: post #20
turnsout wrote: post #17

Someone should do this, but for the love of god, DO NOT take any venture capital to do it. No matter how well-intentioned the VCs are at the start, eventually your eye tracking startup will 100% be used for advertising as investors in your Series D need to make an exit or take you public.

eyetracking is already used by the advertisers in research for many many years, e.g: https://www.tobii.com/

Yes, in research. But once they can see what real-world users are looking at in context, in realtime, it's a different ballgame.

Re: If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

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Post by turnsout »

FlamingMoe wrote: post #18

Not really a huge PG fan, but this is what billionaires should be doing: see where a need is exists and put some of your insane wealth towards making an improvement. This why I respect Elon even though I don’t really like him; he puts his money to use, in a very public manner.

This is not altruistic. He is looking to make an investment which he assumes would have an upside.
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