A new study shows that eye-trackers in computers and VR headsets enable AI to predict your next move in digital games – and that deception strategies won’t work as well on AI as they do on humans.
Children benefit from previous understanding of spoken words before reading them.
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Eye-tracking technology helps us understand how people interact with their environment. This can improve policy and design, but can also be a tool for surveillance and control.
The Division video games uses eye tracking technology to help target the enemy.
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The ability to track where you are looking on screen opens up new options for video game players and developers. But is eye-tracking technology a gimmick or a game changer for the gaming industry?
What are you looking at?
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Technologies that predict the possibility of a neurological disorder have the weight of affecting conceptions of not just “what” these children have but “who” these children will become.
New technologies are allowing us to understand far more about what we see when we watch a screen.
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What are we really looking at when we watch a screen? There’s more to it than Gogglebox. Advances in eye-tracking technology are transforming how we understand film and TV spectatorship.
Eyes are the windows to the soul, and perhaps an extra pair of hands too.
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Eye tracking devices sound a lot more like expensive pieces of scientific research equipment than joysticks – yet if the latest announcements about the latest Assassin’s Creed game are anything to go by…
You’re a vegetarian? But your subconscious ordered the Meat Lover’s!
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If you prefer to order your pizza without going through all the trouble of actually speaking, Pizza Hut has just the thing for you — “the world’s first subconscious menu.” You sit down, glance through…
Luis Suárez has struck again. For the third time now, the Uruguayan striker faces charges for biting an opponent and there is no defending this kind of behaviour on a sports pitch. While no one knows for…
Australian skier Katya Cremer (right) flies through the air in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
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Some of the most exciting moments in the Sochi Winter Olympics will be in racing events such as ski and snowboard cross and short track speed skating. While it may seem obvious that vision plays a big…
If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes …
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In Blade Runner (1982), Roy Batty, the leader of an outlaw group of Nexus-6 replicants, undertakes a quest to “meet his maker”. When he encounters Chew, the genetic designer of his eyes, he mocks: “Chew…
Eye tracking is already here, but looks set to become more prevalent in our lives.
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The launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4 last month garnered the type of media attention we’re getting used to for any new smartphone. Among the most talked-about feature pre-launch was “eye tracking” – the…