re: Replace mouse with video eye tracking?
re: Replace mouse with video eye tracking?
- Subject: re: Replace mouse with video eye tracking?
- From: George Warner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:51:38 -0800
- Thread-topic: Replace mouse with video eye tracking?
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:05:18 -0500, Jonathan Hendry
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I find myself with a broken right little finger, which is going to
> interfere with my work as a Mac Developer working with Tiger.
>
> One of the gadgets I've been working with is a video eye tracking
> system, which can determine what you're looking at. It's a dedicated
> PC which can provide the gaze data over ethernet, but it isn't set up
> to plug in via USB and mimic a pointing device.
>
> I'm wondering how much work would be required to get this hooked up
> to a Tiger-running Mac Pro, to move the cursor in place of the mouse.
>
> If there is a more appropriate list for this question, please let me
> know.
A "minimal effort" solution might be to write an app that talks to the
camera to determine the (virtual) cursor location and then post it into the
event system via ether CGWarpMouseCursorPosition or IOHIDPostEvent, etc.
--
Enjoy,
George Warner,
Schizophrenic Optimization Scientist
Apple Developer Technical Support (DTS)
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