Tobii EyeAsteroids: The future of gaming is eye control
Eye tracking and control specialist company Tobii Techology has dismissed the idea of using joypads, joysticks or flailing your arms around like a whirligig in order to play games; it sees the future of gaming controls being focused around your mince pies (eyes, for those not conversant in the Cockney tongue).
The organisation, which also develops technologies to aid communication for those with special needs, has created a one-off arcade machine that's entirely controllable using a player's peepers. EyeAsteroids is similar to the classic arcade unit from 1979, but with no physical control mechanism.
As asteroids move towards an on-screen Earth, threatening an ELE (an Extinction-Level Event), the player can fire lasers to blow them up by simply looking in each 'roid's direction. And, as hands are removed form the equation, Tobii boasts that response time is much improved. The speed eyes can move to each target is far quicker than the movement of a joystick, trackball or press of a button.
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