{"id":88011,"date":"2016-04-03T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=88011"},"modified":"2016-04-03T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T08:04:41","slug":"how-eye-tracking-gives-players-a-new-experience-in-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88011-how-eye-tracking-gives-players-a-new-experience-in-video-games","title":{"rendered":"How eye tracking gives players a new experience in video games"},"content":{"rendered":"

More often than not, the technology has been depicted as part of rather dystopian futures: in the movie Minority Report<\/a>, police could track your every move through your eyes; in Fifteen Million Merits<\/a>, part of the television series Black Mirror, adverts would pause when you looked away, forcing you to pay attention.<\/p>\n

The reality of eye tracking, however, can be a lot more fun than that. In particular, our research group has been interested in the applications of eye tracking for gaming.<\/p>\n

From the lab to the home<\/h2>\n

Eye trackers used to cost tens of thousands of dollars and were precious pieces of equipment at psychology labs. While expensive high-speed trackers still have their place in eye movement research, eye trackers for gaming purposes can now be bought for just a few hundred dollars.<\/p>\n

Examples include the Tobii EyeX<\/a>, the Steelseries Sentry<\/a> and the EyeTribe<\/a>. We are also starting to see laptops<\/a>
\nthat ship with built-in eye trackers.
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