MWC 2014: Play Fruit Ninja with your eyes with the Eye Tribe Tracker
An eye to the future
One of the coolest bits of tech at ShowStoppers 2014 was the Eye Tribe Tracker.
It's a $99 piece of hardware that sits below a tablet (or screen) and, as you might have already guessed, tracks the movement of your eyes.
What this translates to in a web experience is that the browser will automatically scroll down to show you more when you come to the bottom of a page of content.
It's neat, and you can see it in action in the video below.
What's cooler than this, though, is its application in games. Fruit Ninja was used as part of a tech demo - you simply needed to look at a fruit and it would be sliced (rather than be 'cut' by swiping on the screen).
The feeling you get as a player is one of power: you need only look at something and it will explode into itty-bitty pieces.
Imagine an X-Men game where you can play as Cyclops and shoot Sentinels with your laser eyes. Or imagine playing FIFA and making more accurate passes by selecting the player to whom you wish to pass by sight alone.
Perhaps even more exciting than this is the Eye Tribe Tracker's potential application for disabled gamers. This piece of hardware could enable disabled gamers to play titles that require sophisticated motor skills.
Whether any of the above will happen, of course, is down to the product's success and the number of developers that choose to utilise this technology. The first batch of the device is currently sold out, which obviously, at the very least, represents a promising start.
