Playing Assassin's Creed with Tobii's new laptop eye tracker — CES 2016
Playing Assassin's Creed with Tobii's new laptop eye tracker — CES 2016
2016-01-08
hi I'm adding with the verge leaping
around London with my eyes courtesy of
Swedish tech company Toby Toby is a
familiar name at CES you can usually
wander by its booth and do something
like play asteroids with its eye
tracking hardware but until now that's
likely all you could do Toby was a big
name in the business and research world
but its consumer hardware was pretty
limited unless you were a hardcore eye
tracking fans this year though toby is
making its first appearance in a real
laptop it's an MSI gaming machine and
that little strip right above the hinge
is actually a set of cameras that track
where your pupils are going the games
for this laptop are a little more subtle
than asteroids one of Toby's big titles
is Assassin's Creed syndicate which is
actually the second assassins creed game
with eye tracking last time around it
was just an awkward way to move the
camera but now it's an intuitive
targeting system for everything from
your gun to your grappling hook no
matter how cool this is I tracking is
still an add on to these games not a
fundamental part of them but that's not
the case for another medium virtual
reality Toby thinks that being able to
separate your eye movement from your
head movement is a game changer and it's
created little cameras that can fit
inside a headset instead of tracking
your eyes they actually track a
reflection of your eyes Toby says that
has at least one partner for this but we
haven't seen much actually come out of
it yet so while I tracking actually
break through to become a major part of
VR we don't know but we're more than
willing to keep watching you want to see
more cool stuff from CES you can check
us out on youtube at youtube.com slash
the verge
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