Eye Tracking Update

Newly Released Apple Patent Uses Head and Eye Tracking To Adjust UI

CShaffer — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:33:02 +0000

A newly released patent application from Apple shows they may be looking to use facial recognition, eye tracking, and head tracking, in addition their existing sensors (gyroscopes, accelerometers, etc.) to adjust the way users see and interact with the user interface on their devices. What exactly would this let Apple do for the next generation [...]

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Eye tracking shows the power of social content for SEO

mfox — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:22:22 +0000

Online reviews are becoming an increasingly more powerful tool for attracting (or repelling) new business. A study conducted by the digital marketing company Mediative, confirmed this notion through eye tracking and click tracking user behavior on Google Places search results. The findings suggest that social content and perceived quality indicators can be even more powerful [...]

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Eye tracking may reduce cases of breast cancer misdiagnosis

mfox — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:25:29 +0000

It’s estimated by the American Cancer Society that over 229,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed this year. Even with advances in mammography technology, a portion of these cases will be misdiagnosed, causing patients to endure unnecessary treatments and psychological damage. Modern imaging technology is able to produce higher resolution images that reveal [...]

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Eye tracking has a presence at CES 2012

mfox — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:59:39 +0000

Online media is flooding with announcements about all the cool, high tech gadgets being revealed at CES this year in Las Vegas. Among the technologies making the news are several new eye tracking innovations making their debut this week. Here are four eye tracking products that are getting buzz at CES: Tobii on Windows 8 [...]

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Eye tracking study may reduce teen crash rates

mfox — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:32:03 +0000

An upcoming study at Montana State University’s Western Transportation Institute will use eye tracking to research the efficacy of virtual reality training to improve young drivers’ ability to perceive road hazards. The statistics about teen drivers are alarming, but most accidents involving teen drivers don’t happen for the reasons you might think. A 2011 study [...]

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Eye tracking biometrics for medical diagnosis

mfox — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:21:53 +0000

The intimate connection between the eyes and the brain make eye tracking a clear fit in the field of neuroscience. In fact, the eyes have distinct movement patterns that can be altered by neurodamage and neurological disorders, which can be captured and identified by certain eye tracking systems. Recent advances in eye tracking technology by [...]

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Iris scanners to speed up airport security

mfox — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:05:04 +0000

As the holidays approach, many of you will be traveling to visit family or to go somewhere warm. Unless you are traveling by car, this means having to endure the dreaded airport security lines. The good news is, biometric security technologies are in development which will help speed up security procedures; the bad news is [...]

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Eye Tracking Cost: a Tradeoff for Quality?

mfox — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:35 +0000

One of the greatest factors inhibiting the widespread use of eye tracking is cost. It’s an issue that comes up in our articles frequently, and is apparently a popular topic among our readers. In fact, the top 3 most read posts last month were: The Price of Eye Tracking, How to Make An Eye Tracker [...]

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Eye Gaze & Gesture Control- How Smart Can TVs Get?

mfox — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:03:21 +0000

With the release of new wave gesture controlled video game consoles like the Sony Move and the Xbox Kinect, we knew it wouldn’t be long until eye gaze entered the playing field. The ability to track gaze and viewing behavior on a computer screen has been around for years now, but doing so on a [...]

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Tobii Helps Make UX Research More User Friendly

CShaffer — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:55:34 +0000

Eye tracking for UX research got a little bit more user friendly yesterday with the announcement of the Tobii Technologies plug-in for popular UX software, Morae. The plug-in will allow Morae users to add data from a Tobii eye tracking system directly into the Morae Recorder software, which already can record a wide variety of [...]

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Co-Registering EEG and Eye Tracking Data for Research

mfox — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:30:38 +0000

What are consumers thinking about when they look at an advertisement? How does the brain react when reading complex content? Questions like these regarding the relationship between visual attention and cognitive or emotional reactions are being investigated using co-registration of eye tracking and EEG brainwave data. Using a combination of biometric technologies, scientists at Humboldt [...]

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When A Remote Isn’t Really A Remote

CShaffer — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:43:56 +0000

Even with all of the rapid changes that have occurred with the way we watch televisions, the remote control hasn’t changed very much since its invention in the early 1950’s. If the future of remote controls is up to one Canadian eye tracking company however, we will see a dramatic shift in the classic fight [...]

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SMI Unveils 500 Hz Binocular Remote Eye Tracker

New Video Glasses Do 3D and Head Tracking

CShaffer — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:08:45 +0000

It looks like it may finally be time to put away your Nintendo Virtual Boy and step into virtual reality 21st century style, thanks to the newest Vuzix video eye wear. The Wrap 1200VR glasses are the newest in a series of virtual reality and video eye wear designed for personal media viewing and immersive [...]

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The Truth Is On Your Face

CShaffer — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:29:09 +0000

A University of Bradford research team unveiled their new face tracking lie detector this week. While the system isn’t quite as accurate as a human deception expert, like Dr. Cal Lightman, its current 70% accuracy rating seems to be much more consistent then most conventional lie detectors. The new, yet to be named system, works [...]

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The Great Face Race

CShaffer — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:05:17 +0000

So what do you get when you combine webcam based face tracking, online gaming, and the highly caffeinated minds over at Red Bull? Red Bull Formula Face, the new online racing game that allows users to control a racecar with their face of course. The game uses only the player’s facial expressions to control the [...]

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Face Tracking Enables 3D For Virtually Any Device

CShaffer — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:27:10 +0000

Several weeks ago, we brought you a story about Toshiba’s new laptop that uses face tracking to create glasses free 3D, today we have come across a technology that will allow you to experience 3D on just about any device. Like the Toshiba laptop, the SeeFront 3D system uses a camera and tracking software to [...]

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Face Tracking Makes Glasses-Free 3D a Reality

How Do You Use Your Eye Tracker?

CShaffer — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:27:08 +0000

With all of the different ways researchers are using eye tracking technology these days, we couldn’t help but wonder what the most popular use of these devices are. Let us know by voting in our poll below. If you choose other, don’t be scared to let us know what we left out by leaving a [...]

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Wearable Eye Tracker Tries to be Most Affordable

CShaffer — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:39:18 +0000

Following our story last week on the PicoEye, we have come across another wearable eye tracking device. The EyeGuide™ comes to us from Grinbath Technologies and began as a project of the Texas Tech Usability Research Lab after its director, Brian Still, was approached by a client asking to use eye tracking technology and he [...]

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Wearable Eye Tracker in Development Incorporates RFID

mfox — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:12:49 +0000

Over the last year or two, we’ve seen several wearable eye trackers emerge in effort to mitigate the limitations of monitor mounted systems. I was contacted by Peter Stevrin, who shared exciting news about another wearable eye tracker being developed by his team. The team consists of a microcamera vendor, researchers from the Image and [...]

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The Eyes Have It:Facebook Versus Google+

CShaffer — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:13:33 +0000

Will it topple Facebook? Will its ads make money? Will people like the way it is set up? Will it Blend ? With the exception of the later, these are among the many questions people have been asking since the sudden rise of Google+. Now, thanks to recent eye tracking study from EyeTrackShop, we finally [...]

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Face Tracking Makes Glasses-Free 3D a Reality

mfox — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:52:07 +0000

Eye tracking could be the solution to eliminating the need for those goofy glasses required to watch a movie in 3D. Although the technology isn’t quite there yet, we may be seeing something close with a new technique just released by Toshiba. Their newest product is the first ever glasses-free 3D laptop, which is set [...]

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Face Recognition Makes Advancements

Eye Tracking Shows There is No Horsing Around in Show Jumping

mfox — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:41:59 +0000

Eye tracking has been used to analyze the performance of athletes in many different sports. In fact, it is becoming a way for trainers to identify the visual behaviors of the pros and develop training programs that help improve athlete performance. Recently, another sport was evaluated with eye tracking for the first time– equestrian show [...]

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Tobii Launches Tobii insight, Now Competing With Customers?

CShaffer — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:15:43 +0000

Tobii announced this morning that they have begun to offer a new service called Tobii Insight, designed to offer a full set of eye tracking services targeted towards market research companies. The “Insight” service appears to be designed to help market research firms, not currently using eye tracking, to be able to offer eye tracking [...]

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“There Will Be Eye Tracking!”

CShaffer — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:00:04 +0000

Ever wondered how movie directors get us to look where they want during critical moments of their latest summer blockbuster? Psychologist Tim Smith from Birkbeck University of London recently revealed some of the findings from his eye tracking study of the film “There Will Be Blood” on the Science Weekly podcast from the UK Guardian. [...]

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Eye Tracking Makes Astigmatism Correction Possible

mfox — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:30:33 +0000

As eye tracking technology advances, we are beginning to see more complex applications arise. A recent press release announced a new LASIK procedure that uses eye tracking technology to facilitate the delicate laser procedure. Until the development of Advanced Control Eyetracking (ACE) for the Technolas Perfect Vision LASIK platform, patients with astigmatism were ineligible to [...]

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Microsoft Links Eye-Gaze and Cursor Position

CShaffer — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:11:33 +0000

Microsoft recently completed an eye tracking web usability study that examined the association between a user’s gaze and the movement of the cursor over a search engine results page. In the research paper, entitled “No Clicks, No Problem: Using Cursor Movements to Understand and Improve Search,“ Microsoft details the correlation between a user’s eye position [...]

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Wearable Eye Tracker Puts Microsoft Kinect to the Test

mfox — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:35:39 +0000

The UK-based usability company, User Vision, is demonstrating that eye tracking usability testing isn’t just for computer applications and websites. User Vision recently conducted a usability study on the Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 to evaluate user experience. Test subjects wore Tobii Glasses while they set up and played the game, Reflex Ridge. The eye [...]

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3M Launches Visual Attention Service 3.0

CShaffer — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:27:37 +0000

Yesterday, 3M introduced the newest generation of its Visual Attention Service (VAS), an online tool that allows its users to upload an image and have the software analyze the visual impact of the image. The VAS software looks at both the graphical and text elements of the uploaded image and identifies what features the average [...]

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New Eye Tracker for Academic, Market, and Usability Research

mfox — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:24:21 +0000

So far, this year has been full of new eye tracking product releases. It seems portability is the trend of the year with a focus on eye tracking products for market and usability research. These new developments are good news for the eye tracking user community, which is growing rapidly every year. It was brought [...]

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Top 2 Search Engines Google, Yahoo Use Eye Tracking

mfox — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:36:47 +0000

You know eye tracking is getting big when the multibillion dollar companies, Google and Yahoo!, are turning to the technology to optimize the usability and ad success on their sites. Ads are the largest source of revenue for these companies; Google earned over $28 billion in revenue from ads alone in 2010. We’ve written previously [...]

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Eye-Tracking Leader Selects Top Neuroscience Exec as Head of US Operations

esarmiento — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:00:31 +0000

On April 20, 2011 MRC International, developers of the first eye-tracking solution for webcams in conjunction with Tobii Technology, announced the hiring of Jeff Bander as Senior Vice President of Client Services. In this role Bander will be head of the recently created New York offices of MRC International. There he will build and manage [...]

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Eye-Tracking Advances in Medicine

esarmiento — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:57:38 +0000

On April 6, 2011 BYU announced that students there had developed an affordable eye-tracking tablet to help people with disabilities in partnership with EyeTech Digital Systems as part of a year-long engineering project. The tablet the s tudents created in an impressive system given its size (2’ think, 10’ long by 14’ wide) and considering it [...]

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The Snowball Effect: Advances in Eye Tracking

Gaze Tracking Is Used To Determine What Players Want

dbrendant — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:24:56 +0000

We often read about new additions to gaming rigs, Wii motion, gaze tracking, and facial recognition in new consoles. So much effort is spent delivering new and unique ways of playing games, and much of this expended effort is created solely to please the gamer/consumer. So it’s a bit of fresh air when we read [...]

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Could Skeletal Scanning Be Coming To An Airport Near You?

dbrendant — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:02:34 +0000

Iris scanners, facial recognition, nose scanners, hand scanners, fingerprint scanners, voice detection. We live in a different world from 10 years ago. The other day I was passing through the security screening at the airport and saw one of the new full body scanners for the first time. It had a diagram of what security [...]

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Private Pasties for Biometric Airport Screenings

mfox — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:46:00 +0000

More news about biometrics, and specifically, news about the growing uproar centered on full-body imaging scanners that have been installed some airports across the country. A story published in the NY Post reports that full-body imaging scanners are on their way to airports in New York City, and one company is offering a solution to [...]

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Eye Tracking: What Are Eyes Doing as They Read?

dbrendant — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:36:12 +0000

Eye tracking was recently used in research that focused on reading and eye movement. A team of researchers led by Erik Reichle of the University of Pittsburgh, undertook research in an effort to better understand how the brain controls movement of the eye. How often is it that you are reading a book, and you [...]

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Eye Tracking: Avatar Lie Detection … It’s All in the Eyes

Facial Recognition for Facebook?

dbrendant — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:27:52 +0000

The Facebook movie was released awhile back, and while some media are not calling it a biopic of the founders who created the now giant social network, others call it a document of the cultural shift that’s taken place over the last years since the application was first introduced. Either way you see it, it [...]

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Iris Recognition: Biometric Security in Mexico

dbrendant — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:51:30 +0000

It looks like Mexico will lead the way with iris scanning biometric security, or at least that is what has been going around the Internet recently. A tech company called Global Rainmakers Inc.(GRI) has announced their plans to provide iris scanning technology for widespread implementation in the city of Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. In cooperation with [...]

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Google Using Eye Tracking To Study New Google Instant

dbrendant — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:42:12 +0000

In a recent post at the Silicon Valley Watcher, the author discusses Google’s new venture in searching: Google Instant. Essentially, Google Instant is an overhaul of Google’s previous way of doing things, making for a dynamic format that changes as users type in their query. Google is seeking to reduce the amount of minutes that [...]

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Did Lou Gehrig Really Die From Lou Gehrig’s Disease?

dbrendant — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:33:10 +0000

When reporting on eye tracking applications for assistive technology, we’ve mentioned patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) as one of the primary groups that would benefit. ALS is a progressive and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disease that is caused by the degeneration of motor neurons, the nerve cells in the central nervous system which control voluntary [...]

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Helping Lou Gehrig’s Disease Patients With Eye Tracking

New Infrared Facial Recognition

dbrendant — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:23:59 +0000

OmniPerception, a U.K. tech company, has developed a new infrared camera that features facial recognition system able to quickly pick a single person out of a crowd, even while they’re on the go. An article in Homeland Security Newswire, a blog covering all aspects of homeland security, recently published an article featuring this small company [...]

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Biometric Devices: A Voice-Activated Kill Switch for Apple?

dbrendant — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:23:49 +0000

When you read and review as many articles as we do at Eye Tracking Update, you often hear the phrase “Big Brother” tossed around in relation to new technologies, industry, policies, regulations, and even the actual consumer products. In an effort to avoid the “boy who cried wolf” sort of feeling that may come with [...]

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Biometric Devices: Military Studies and Your Brain on Ultrasound

dbrendant — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:15:28 +0000

If transcranial pulsed ultrasound, transducer phased arrays, and brain circuits sound scary, read on. A post on the national defense-themed website, Armed With Science, reports the work of Dr. William J. Tyler, Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and co-founder of SynSonic, Inc., who has been working with the [...]

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Introducing Biometric Wallets

dbrendant — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:10:22 +0000

Ever had your wallet stolen? It is a scary thing and more often than not a giant inconvenience. One inventor who fell prey to a pickpocket found a handy solution – the iWallet. The iWallet is seemingly the world’s first biometric wallet, safe and secure if it falls into the hands of a stranger. It [...]

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New Facial Recognition Software Has Some Critics

dbrendant — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:02:52 +0000

Do you have photos floating around online that you would rather not have your name attached to? A new article in The Daily Mail, a newspaper from the United Kingdom, reported on a new software program that has the potential to ascribe a name to every portrait online. This means identifying people from images and [...]

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Nvidia and Others Working With Gesture and Motion Tracking

dbrendant — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:51:31 +0000

In a recent article at xbitlabs.com, it was announced that Nvidia has started researching image tracking and motion detection technology. This is big news for the interface world and motion and gesture-based user interfaces are growing quickly in popularity, especially now the top three video game console makers have begun to incorporate the technology. It’s [...]

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Motion Tracking: Beckoning to the Future

New Camera Mimics Movement of Human Eye

dbrendant — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:37:06 +0000

A recent post at Martin Tall’s blog on eye tracking and gaze interaction discusses a new camera system that can mimic the movement of a human’s eyes. The camera was developed by a German research team with the idea of creating a system that could imitate the fastest eye movements of a human, which clock [...]

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Superfast Camera Makes for Faster Eye Tracking

Head Tracking On The Cheap

dbrendant — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:30:11 +0000

A website was recently passed our way that gave pretty detailed instructions on how to build your own head tracker for cheap. We’ve seen a few of these in the past and others featuring eye trackers, but this one seems pretty well done so we thought we’d pass it along. The post on maximumpc.com goes [...]

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The Future of Eye Tracking & Personal Transportation

smcmullen — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:23:12 +0000

Our vehicles are extensions of our homes. They take us to and from work, pick up our kids, and get us where we need to go. In recent years, the instrument panel in our personal motor transportation have increased to such a degree that it’s not just our dashboard and maybe a radio, tape or [...]

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Eye Tracking Update

Newly Released Apple Patent Uses Head and Eye Tracking To Adjust UI

Eye tracking shows the power of social content for SEO

Eye tracking may reduce cases of breast cancer misdiagnosis

Eye tracking has a presence at CES 2012

Eye tracking study may reduce teen crash rates

Eye tracking biometrics for medical diagnosis

Iris scanners to speed up airport security

Eye Tracking Cost: a Tradeoff for Quality?

Eye Gaze & Gesture Control- How Smart Can TVs Get?

Tobii Helps Make UX Research More User Friendly

Co-Registering EEG and Eye Tracking Data for Research

When A Remote Isn’t Really A Remote

New Video Glasses Do 3D and Head Tracking

The Truth Is On Your Face

Top 5 Biometric Stories Since 9/11

The Great Face Race

Face Tracking Enables 3D For Virtually Any Device

How Do You Use Your Eye Tracker?

Wearable Eye Tracker Tries to be Most Affordable

Wearable Eye Tracker in Development Incorporates RFID

The Eyes Have It:Facebook Versus Google+

Face Tracking Makes Glasses-Free 3D a Reality

Eye Tracking Shows There is No Horsing Around in Show Jumping

Tobii Launches Tobii insight, Now Competing With Customers?

“There Will Be Eye Tracking!”

Eye Tracking Makes Astigmatism Correction Possible

Microsoft Links Eye-Gaze and Cursor Position

Wearable Eye Tracker Puts Microsoft Kinect to the Test

3M Launches Visual Attention Service 3.0

New Eye Tracker for Academic, Market, and Usability Research

Top 2 Search Engines Google, Yahoo Use Eye Tracking

Eye-Tracking Leader Selects Top Neuroscience Exec as Head of US Operations

Eye-Tracking Advances in Medicine

Gaze Tracking Is Used To Determine What Players Want

Could Skeletal Scanning Be Coming To An Airport Near You?

Private Pasties for Biometric Airport Screenings

Eye Tracking: What Are Eyes Doing as They Read?

Facial Recognition for Facebook?

Iris Recognition: Biometric Security in Mexico

Google Using Eye Tracking To Study New Google Instant

Did Lou Gehrig Really Die From Lou Gehrig’s Disease?

New Infrared Facial Recognition

Biometric Devices: A Voice-Activated Kill Switch for Apple?

Biometric Devices: Military Studies and Your Brain on Ultrasound

Introducing Biometric Wallets

New Facial Recognition Software Has Some Critics

Nvidia and Others Working With Gesture and Motion Tracking

New Camera Mimics Movement of Human Eye

Head Tracking On The Cheap

The Future of Eye Tracking & Personal Transportation