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Post by frenchman99 »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #86
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.

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 h…

Lithium extraction is also very bad for the environment. Requires insane amounts of water, requires often times destroying forests or other natural areas that are on top of lithium, etc.

Sure I use lithium ion batteries too, in the developed country I live in, I can't go and live in a cave. But I won't buy a SUV that weighs 2 tons to sit alone in it most of the time and have it parked 95% of the time in a garage.

The "what have you done" attack is a bit too easy and, really, this is not about me.

We should strive to be sober, to buy repairable goods whenever possible, to educate ourselves on environmental impact of things, and perhaps more importantly to teach this to our children.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

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.

It will be anyway. No matter whether you take VC or not.

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

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Post by tbenst »

fartjetpack wrote: post #21

Another route might also be sub-vocalization[1], like TTS for your thoughts. I recently picked up some cheap toys to get started trying to emulate the results[2]. 1. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2004/subvoca... 2. https://github.com/kitschpatrol/Brain

I agree! My PhD thesis is on this topic [1]. We’ve also done a very limited pilot test on a patient with ALS, with above random chance. Actual results may vary heavily on individual disease progression—the more motor recruitment that’s intact, the better.

[1] https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/research/funded-research/s...

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

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Post by justinlloyd »

I do hardware. I do software. I do computer vision. I built some software that ran on a cellphone used by LEO (law enforcement officers) to determine if the person they are quizzing is inebriated or impaired through controlled substances by examining the person's eyes and having them focus on images displayed on the phone screen. I've done eye tracking using fully custom solutions and also through a few of the off-the-shelf SDKs such as GazeSense from eyeware and a few other SDKs.

The problem is not the eye-tracking, it is reasonably easy to build robust systems that can do that easily enough, even with custom hardware under all sorts of lighting conditions. The hard part is the UX if you are trying to build something that isn't hampered by current UI paradigms.

Rapid typing and menus of custom actions with just eye movement, though fatiguing, shouldn't be hard to solve, and then render the output however you want; text, text to speech, commands issued to an machine, etc. Making a usable user interface to do anything else, that's where the rubber hits the road.

@pg, which software is your friend using? If it is anything like I've looked in to in the past, it's over-priced accessibility crap with a UI straight out of the 1990s.

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

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Post by modeless »

I agree, eye tracking is going to have really broad applications. I've been interested in eye tracking for over a decade, and in fact built my own eye tracker, joined a startup, and got acquired by Google[1]. But there's way more to do. We've barely scratched the surface of what's possible with eye tracking and I'd love to take a second crack at it.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/24/google-buys-eyefluence-eye...

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

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Post by LegitShady »

gnicholas wrote: post #82
post_break wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Even the large headset is a no go for als sufferers.
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