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

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Post by gnicholas »

post_break wrote: post #8
soligern wrote: post #2

It feels like Apple has solved this problem with the Vision Pro? So just wait for a couple more months?

Except Apple has stated they will encrypt that information and not supply it to apps to avoid targeting or fingerprinting. And second how would that help someone with ALS?

> And second how would that help someone with ALS?

They won't share information on where you look, but they will share info on where you 'click', which is used to navigate apps. IIRC you are supposed to use your fingers to do this, and other actions, but I imagine that Apple's accessibility team will have an alternate mode for people with motor limitations. It could be a long-blink, or rapid blinking, for example.

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

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Post by frenchman99 »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #61
frenchman99 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately we use all that technology on devices that are built with metals mined by kids in Congo and similar states. Talk about quality of life.

Those are unrelated topics. Not developing the technology is not going to help those kids’ quality of life.

But building it as we currently are is directly putting them at risk of poisoning, dying buried alive when their cobalt mining tunnels collapse, etc.

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Post by ankaAr »

gwurldz wrote: post #10

This seems like it would fit https://thinksmartbox.com/products/eye-gaze/ I once interviewed at this company. Unfortunately didn't get the job but very impressed nonetheless.

I work for them.., they have their ins and outs. The stack is very impressive but there is a loooot to improve yet

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

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Post by CyberDildonics »

frenchman99 wrote: post #44
hardwaregeek wrote: post #13

Aw, that's nice of pg to want something better for his friend. As cynical as we are about technology, new developments can be so fantastic for accessibility and better quality of life.

Unfortunately we use all that technology on devices that are built with metals mined by kids in Congo and similar states. Talk about quality of life.

This has nothing to do with anything and it isn't even true.

You are talking about cobalt and that is only used in lithium ion batteries. You can avoid cobalt by using lithium iron phosphate batteries.

There are active efforts to develop new lithium ion chemistries to avoid cobalt and there are even commercial sodium ion batteries now.

You bring this in to a completely irrelevant conversation, what have you done to help solve it?

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

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Post by dgrin91 »

ladberg wrote: post #47
pg wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I used to work on it and have spent tons of time in the headset. The eye tracking is next-level and it's really the only platform that exists with eye tracking as a primary input method. I'm pretty confident it will greatly improve your friend's quality of life. Because of that, I'm also sure that eye tracking will go mainstream in other areas once the Vision Pro is released once everyone else catches on to it as a g…

Doesn't it rely on external cameras to see users hands and use that as the "click" inputs? Seems like that negates usage for ALS cases.

Also, I'm not an ALS expert, but if the only muscular control is in the eyes, then lack of control in the head/neck probably breaks some assumptions about how the vision headset works (just a guess though).

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