On 10/25/2011 03:56 PM, Jan Jokela wrote: > I think we are missing the important bit here. > > Tracking your head with a webcam to drive a mouse results in a bad > experience. It doesn't work even remotely well.
Some users already find this feature/application really useful. > Someone will, in the future, figure out how to do this properly and > then it won't be called an accessibility feature but something > everyone will want to use. It would be good to have it for general use for the feature. But for the moment it is just a specific accessibility tool. > > I -think- that for this to work properly we'd need a bunch of things: > first, we need to track not only head movement but also your eyes and > several facial muscles so that we can have accurate tracking and hints > about your AFAIK, eViacam developers plans to add support for more facial gestures in the future. > intentions. Well, this requires cameras with resolutions much higher > than VGA, which is the current standard for these. Then, someone needs > to figure out how to track all these elements real-time with little > cpu usage. As it is, we With higher resolution cameras the behaviour would be better. But please, read again the feature proposal name "Alternative input based system based on *low-cost* webcam". About performance, it is something that was always one of the priorities for eViacam developers, and the reason that the configuration wizard allows you to tweak so many parameters. > can't even maintain a Mexican hat over ones head in Cheese without it > lagging 3 seconds behind. And finally for this to work we'de need > pretty good AI to be able to understand what you really want so that > you don't end up sending a draft-mail just because you glanced at that > gorgeous girl that just passed in front of you. See my previous comment about performance. BR -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
