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I was thinking of using something like this that would track my pupils and then switch window focus i.e. allowing me to switch from terminal to terminal without doing Alt-Tab.

Yes, probably the height of laziness to avoid pressing Alt-Tab but its interesting to me.

Edit: Its possible that i am mistaken and what I would need for that is more gaze-tracking than pupil-tracking.




The interface in vr for elite:dangerous works like this, it does gaze tracking of sorts (tracking the headset) and pops up context menues (weapon systems, radio/communication, navigation etc). It works really well imnho. Otoh the interface is similar in regular 2d, but feels clunky and gimmicky there.


That sounds interesting. I will take a look at it. Honestly, I haven't done any study or reading on this topic so have essentially zero idea of how it might work, especially when using a webcam.


This sounds extremely interesting, I guess you could infer the direction you're looking at even with pupil-tracking instead of gaze-tracking, considering you'll move both eyes to look at a specific spot.




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