Arcade gaming
Open up a new world of gaming
Using your eyes to control computer games strongly enhances the gaming experience. The eyes become a completely new input device to make the gaming experience much more real, intense and absorbing.
Look at people or objects in the game to make them take appropriate action. When you play a soccer game you can choose with your eyes which player to control. This makes playing easier, quicker and more intuitive.
- Look at bots and they interact
- Look at avatars and they feel it
Ability to define the eyes’ position in front of the screen also makes it possible to interact through ducking or shifting your head to the right or left. The game can interpret head movements as ducking behind a wall or carefully looking around a corner.
- Duck when enemy opens fire at you
- Bots mirror the movement of your head
- Correct the perspective depending on where your eyes are
Faster interaction
When you have learned how to use your eyes, you become a faster player. From previously having used only hands and feet you get two new input channels to the game, eye gaze point and head movements (or more exactly the eyes’ position and movements in space in front of the screen).
- Shoot where you look
- Pan the way you look
- Zoom where you look
- Get more info on what you are looking at
- Steer players (bots) through looking at them (football)
Detect people and invite them to play
In an arcade gaming environment eye tracking can be used to detect if a person is present in front of a game but has not yet started playing. The machine can then interact with the potential player asking him to insert a coin and start playing or giving a short demo to trigger the player to go ahead.
Analyze the gaming experience
Eye tracking can be used to record and analyze the eye movements and behavior of the most successful gamers during a game. This can help other competing gamers to become better and it can also be very valuable information for gaming developers.
The companies paying for having ads in games would also be interested in knowing if people using the games actually see the ads and how often they se them. This can also be analyzed with eye tracking.
The gaming industry poses yet a new set of demands on eye tracking technology. To get real acceptance from the players it is also very important with stability and ease of use. It has to work on anyone.
We can work as your partner to support your particular needs and provide the necessary customizations.
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