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

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Post by frenchman99 »

qup wrote: post #29
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not arguing that Elon doesn't put his money to use publicly, but I'm interested how you think he does. Do you mean he uses his wealth privately in a way that benefits the public, and/or he does it in public view?

Musk has a track record of working on what he considers (among) the most important problems, and he supposedly set that course in college.

I fail to see how Tesla fixes an "important problem". They're big electric SUV with huge batteries that require tons of mining and destroy the environment. They're largely non repairable. The full self driving feature seems to be vapor ware.

The space stuff looked interesting until he started sending all kinds of things into space to become an ISP, polluting space the same way Tesla pollutes the earth.

The real issues are still here: poverty, lack of access to clean water, etc. How does Musk fix that?

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

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Post by ta123456789 »

turnsout wrote: post #39
methou wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This already happening in many places. And does not seem to be he intended application in the OP

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

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Post by kken »

In case anyone is interested: There are plenty of companies around.

Both apple and Facebook acquired eye tracking companies to kickstart their own development.

Here are some Top-lists

https://imotions.com/blog/insights/trend/top-eye-tracking-ha... https://valentinazezelj.medium.com/top-10-eye-tracking-compa...

Its also an active research field, this is one of the bigger conferences: https://etra.acm.org/2023/

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

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Post by xeromal »

frenchman99 wrote: post #51
qup wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Musk has a track record of working on what he considers (among) the most important problems, and he supposedly set that course in college.

I fail to see how Tesla fixes an "important problem". They're big electric SUV with huge batteries that require tons of mining and destroy the environment. They're largely non repairable. The full self driving feature seems to be vapor ware. The space stuff looked interesting until he started sending all kinds of things into space to become an ISP, polluting space the same way Tesla pollutes the earth. The real issue…

This seems like those conservative talking points "I saw a homeless child on my drive to work today. Why are we sending money to Ukraine".

We can work on many problems at once. Tesla also makes a car.

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

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Post by user3939382 »

How about a library that starts loading a link when you look at it with intent. Or maybe with BCI integration that detects the moment you decide you want to access it.

Or how about a UI that automatically adapts to your eye movement and access patterns to minimize the amount of eye movement required to complete your most common tasks by rearranging the UI elements.

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

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Post by 0xcde4c3db »

shakna wrote: post #43
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.

Netflix already pause their ads if their window is not in focus. Not a huge leap to pausing ads if you're not paying attention.

The overarching dystopian concept is at least a solid decade old by now. [1] [2]

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en

[2] https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png

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

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Post by qup »

fartjetpack wrote: post #41
qup wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is it going? It's not obvious to me at a glance.

I should clarify that is not my repo. I just received the Mind Trainers and am in the process of finding suitable EEG pads.

I guess I'm just interested in more information. Do people who aren't NASA have this working? I am just learning this sci-fi feature from Ender's universe is possibly a reality, and if I can check it out, I want to.

Got any jumping off points?

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