New Display Keeps an Eye On the Viewer 61
Al writes "Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) have developed an OLED display that doubles as a camera. The idea is to use it in lightweight heads-up displays that track users' eye movements, affording some form of gaze-control. The researchers will demonstrate a prototype at the Society for Information Display conference in San Antonio this week. The current version has a simple monochromatic display: it is 1.25 centimeters on each side, with a resolution of 320 by 240 pixels. The team at Fraunhofer IPMS has also partnered with Novaled, an OLED company that manufactures high-quality white diodes, and plans to make color prototypes using the technology."
Paranoia! (Score:2, Funny)
Any idea the current price on tinfoil glasses?
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You forgot terahertz radiation.
I recommend full-body tinfoil suits.
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I just made a few now. In fact, I'm now working on a complete mask+hat+glasses combo. I'm going to be so safe now!
And if anyone looks at you funny, you can just say you're on your way to a costume party as Jiffy-Pop Popcorn.
Incorporate this in a TV along with a cable modem- (Score:1, Insightful)
And BLAMMO-- Big brother is watching!
20 Minutes Into the Future (Score:2)
I went with the twowaysampler and maxheadroom tags.
I think I'll add videophone to the list too.
reversal (Score:4, Funny)
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It went missing.
Re:reversal (Score:5, Insightful)
You laugh, but this invention is important. Video-phones cannot catch on without it, because humans require eye contact in order to trust each other. You can't have eye contact over a video-phone unless your camera is also your monitor.
important to who? (Score:2)
The sheep or the herder?
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Troll.
If you have ever used a video conferencing program you will notice that the other person's eyes are always looking off to one side trying to make contact with your eyes.
Eye tracking glasses (Score:4, Interesting)
Typo in summary (Score:5, Funny)
usersl
The "l" is on the wrong side.
-- BOFH
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Perhaps he's using a virtual keyboard with the eye tracking monitor and he blinked.
Apple might have a patent for this... (Score:4, Insightful)
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You don't re-invent the light bulb and license it back to Thomas Edison. He sues you for giving or selling away his patented invention and you move behind the dumpster at the grocery store and die in obscurity.
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Personally I would prefer to use a discreet webcam.
It doesn't get much more discreet than not having a lens. Maybe you meant discrete?
Prototype, eh? (Score:5, Insightful)
In other news, I have made a prototype flying car in my garage. It doesn't fly yet, but I have put some stylish looking fins on it.
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This one flies! [youtube.com]
Re:Prototype, eh? (Score:4, Insightful)
Also this is proof of concept. It doesn't really matter whether the resolution is 12 or 1024.
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Oh goody... (Score:2, Informative)
does 1984 ring any bells? (Score:1)
It had to be said (Score:1)
Has been being researched for a while (Score:3, Interesting)
I remember doing work experience at Philips Research Labs back in the mid nineties and they were working on a similar concept back then - a monitor that doubled as a flatbed scanner. It was based on an lcd monitor, with small gaps between pixels to allow light to pass through to the scanner at the back. The big challenges were getting the focal depth right, and avoiding refraction(?) patterns after the light had passed through the screen portion.
They seemed to have gotten roung that problem by placing the photoreceptors and lcd pixels at the same level. Can't wait to see a monitor sized one.
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Video Conferencing (Score:2)
Something like this may eventually make video conferencing useful. Anyone who has actually video conferenced with someone can attest to the lack of eye contact associated with both parties looking at their screen to see each other, rather than looking at the camera sitting atop their monitor. This lack of eye contact is very annoying, and I'd go so far as to say that it defeats the entire purpose of video conferencing in the first place. A camera positioned directly behind the video conference window fixes
Research, medical (Score:1)
So Pajamas Media better not really be ... (Score:1)
Commando Media behind the screen?
The last thing I need is a flash of Glenn Reynolds little blogger as he stands up after his last post.
Imagine pro sites hacked to capture the viewer... (Score:1)
Head mounted display? (Score:1)
How is this news? (Score:2)
This has already existed for a long time [hb4u.com].
Paper thin Microsoft Surface (Score:1)
I always figured this would be the ideal way to make a paper thin Microsoft Surface like interface. No need for rear-projection and a rear-view camera. Not sure whether this can be made cheaper than the capacitative touch surface on, say, an iPhone, but I imagine with time it will be as cheap as active-matrix LCD displays are. Afterall, you already have transistors to drive the pixels, might as well add some photodiodes in there as well for sensing.
A boon to spammers (Score:1)
One important ommission... (Score:2)
How does it focus without some kind of lens?
Photodetectors are a piece of cake. It's the optics that adds bulk and complexity.