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Digital hey guys we're here at the toby and steel series Booth checking out the
steel series it tracker with technology by Toby so we've talked about this on
the W show ey tracking all that kind of stuff but now that we're actually at the booth what can you tell me about this
device so this is an ey tracker and Steelers have decided to to launch an
gaming ey tracker this year uh in the middle of 2014
so there going to come in gaming peripheral to the to the gaming Market
in the middle of 2014 and what we're doing now is basically we're opening up
to the dev Community to really make it possible for developers to start
developing based on this device so this is a dev kit that people can order now
on our website and they can start developing right now and make amazing new games that sounds good and and just
so that people can play around with it to begin with you guys said uh developed
for 50 to 100 games or is that coming later or how's that going no so we can
make from from our side we're going to make when when the devices launch we're
going to make integration from the outside to around about 50 to 100 games
but right now we're reaching out to developers to make Source integration in
their own game so then then they can get this dev kit with an SDK and they they
can start start developing this is one of those things where developers need to
get behind it because direct interaction with the game is while they can make
some of it it will always usually be better if it's purely integrated by the
game developer so I think that's what you guys are going for they have a few demos here one of them is World of
Warcraft which I'm sure you guys will see soon but it it's cool seeing him
Target things and run around with pressing very minimal amounts of buttons
what's your favorite part about this and what's your favorite part about the window side as well so the key thing the
key concept here is basically that a gamer will sit with one hand on the
mouse one hand on a keyboard and what it suddenly gets with an eye tracker is an
an ex extra way to communicate with the game because the computer knows where
you're looking so basically you get another pointer so that increases the
communication band with with the game in the game so then you can Target things
or you can imagine in FIFA or football game you would just like look at the
player who to pass the ball to press a button and there you go the other huge
thing I think is going to be immersion so when I look at you you know when I
look at that person he know so maybe Smiles or get pissed I don't know but
but you know if you walk into a say a bar in a game the characters are a
little bit dead today but now you can really look at the character and they
come to instant life so they would just walk up to you start talking to you or
you look at somebody's money person they get p so you can really create fantastic new
immersion concepts with eye tracking because the real world really reacts to
your eyes I could really see this for RPG and horror games so like an RPG game
like you were saying staring at someone's money purse they're not going to like that because they're going to
wonder what you're up to in a horror game if you start looking at something too closely then it could jump out at
you and freak you out just stuff like that is actually really interesting because it adds a whole another layer to
games something could be developed purely around this so someone who's trying to look for an idea for a game
you could make it completely around the the the trer because like I just said
with the uh the horror game thing I don't know how else you could integrate
that without ey tracking to for it to really work properly instead of just
like okay your character is standing generally in front of it so we're going to make a jump at you now suddenly you
get the concept of this and that in a game so you can kind of do something
with this or I'm interested there and you're what you really look is a very
good um prediction what you think about and that's obviously a fantastic thing
to have in a game so what are some of the ideas that you guys have come up
with I know we just saw targeting and wow like I know there's something to do
with the mini map and Starcraft too can you describe that yeah in Starcraft we
do well it's pretty tedious to go down to the mini map up and down all the time
but what you can do is basically you just press a button you get the minimap blown up over your screen you look at
where you want to take take the take the view and you release so it's a much
faster way of integrating mini map and not to mention that you don't have to lose control of your army now uh I'm not
necessarily A Dev but I purchased into the Oculus dev kit so if someone out
there just wanted to kind of play with this and around with it in the meantime could they pick this up and how much
would that cost them you can go into our website so Toby to
i/i and then an x on the end they can go
in there and they can purchase it for $95 and then they get the hardware
device plug in with the USB and a dev kit and a Dev forum and documentation
Etc right and they they could start playing around certain games immediately
or yeah we going to have a certain examples with it but there's not going
to be games immediately when you order right now but it's going to be at the at
the launch of the real product basically cool so you could still show it off and
play with it and all that kind of stuff which sounds extremely fun thank you for showing us the Toby if you want to see
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