New technology allows games to be controlled entirely with eye movements

[MrGalactus]

Pressing buttons? Waving your arms in front of a sensor? Nah! That stuff is old-school - there's a new technology in the works which can detect the movement of your eyes and apply it as a control mechanism.
To accomplish this, engineering research group National Instruments uses electrodes which measure voltage activity when a human's eyes move. As the voltage generated from eye movements is very weak, delicate measurements are required. Nevertheless, the engineers have created working prototypes - look left or right and an object on the screen will move accordingly. Or, open your eyes wider to expand the view.
The technology likely has many medical applications (helping treat patients with 'lazy eyes' was noted), but National Instruments applications engineer Hunter Smith says he's also interested in applying it to videogames. The company has already developed a simplistic flight simulation game controlled exclusively by eye movement.
The probability is low that the technology will be deployed to consumers as a gaming mechanism on a large scale, but it could help disabled gamers effectively control games otherwise controlled with buttons, analog sticks, and body movements. And that's pretty cool.
[Source: Design News (Gamesradar)]

 

[Rakkana]

I remember hearing this a few years ago.

 

[Afterglow-]

Damn it, technology! You're ruining all our fun.

 

[MrGalactus]

Damn it, technology! You're ruining all our fun.

You think so? I think it's a freakin sweet idea!

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

Shaky camera controls!

 

[Fenring]

Check out these crazy ass eye movements.

http://kotaku.com/#!5734495/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-glasses+free-3d-solution-

That was fake. They guy was just showing off how awesome his special effects skills were.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well something like this was already done with image recognition(that stuff that kinect does), a camera would look at your eyes and determine their movement, and you could bind those movement to commands.
Ofcourse this is a very poor system because our eyes move subconsciously most of the time, they also tried using blinking... again happens mostly without thought, essentially you haveto relearn everything you have done sofar.

It would however be very hand for full body disabled people, when your eyes are one of the few functions you still have this would help out greatly.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

(hears a loud noise and looks to where it came from)

?!

(Character keeps walking left then falls off a cliff)


FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!