Control your computer with your face and head – it’s the future!

As if to show nothing is new in the world of technology, eye tracking and gesture control date back decades. But if Apple’s on board, maybe their time has finally come, suggests Nicole Kobie

Forget typing and mousing. We’ve been trying for years to come up with new ways to interface with computers, be it eye-trackers, mind-reading tech or VR-powered immersive systems. And among PC Pro staff (past and present), it’s become a joke. We once even ran this headline: “Control your computer with your face and head!” Yet here I am, typing into a laptop and staring into a monitor, just like a chump from the 1980s. But perhaps not for much longer if Apple and Google have their way, with announcements on eye-tracking plus head and face movement recognition. Such technologies were created for people with accessibility challenges, and that’s also the origin of eye trackers and brain-computer interfaces (BCI). Hopefully, by integrating such accessibility tools into mainstream tech, iPads and other computing devices…

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