from the my-eyes-look-in-different-directions dept.
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Hulu hackathon leads to eye-tracking controls for Roku
Of the 40 project ideas that came out of Hulu's annual hackathon this summer, more than a quarter addressed the needs of users with disabilities. Today, Hulu shared some of those accessibility-focused concepts.
One feature, Eye Remote for Roku, allows you to control the device using eye-tracking. We saw a similar idea pop up in a Netflix hackathon last year, and this summer, Comcast revealed an eye-control[sic] remote for users with limited mobility.
[...]While there's no guarantee that any of these will become official Hulu products, accessibility has become a larger focus of hackathons. As we saw with Microsoft's Xbox One Adaptive Controller, hackathons with a focus on inclusion can lead to breakthrough ideas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @12:55AM
or gouge out me eyeballs
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @01:02AM (1 child)
They will lie and say this is really to track if you're paying attention and watching the ads. You people are lunatics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @01:14AM
Is that you, FBI? Can I haz bacon cheezburger?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @01:15AM (1 child)
WTF?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @04:36PM
Blind people are allowed to be passangers in cars...
As for this eye-tracking controller? A breakthrough idea? Hell no! It's two steps forward and three steps back. Just improve the general eye-tracking mouse-based drivers and ensure the software can be used by a mouse. That improves everything and everyone instead of making specific one-off products for every piece of equipment.