Tobii Eye Tracking by Steelseries - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Digital hey guys we're here at the toby and steel series Booth checking out the
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steel series it tracker with technology by Toby so we've talked about this on
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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
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device so this is an ey tracker and Steelers have decided to to launch an
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gaming ey tracker this year uh in the middle of 2014
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so there going to come in gaming peripheral to the to the gaming Market
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in the middle of 2014 and what we're doing now is basically we're opening up
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to the dev Community to really make it possible for developers to start
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developing based on this device so this is a dev kit that people can order now
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on our website and they can start developing right now and make amazing new games that sounds good and and just
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so that people can play around with it to begin with you guys said uh developed
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for 50 to 100 games or is that coming later or how's that going no so we can
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make from from our side we're going to make when when the devices launch we're
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going to make integration from the outside to around about 50 to 100 games
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but right now we're reaching out to developers to make Source integration in
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their own game so then then they can get this dev kit with an SDK and they they
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can start start developing this is one of those things where developers need to
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get behind it because direct interaction with the game is while they can make
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some of it it will always usually be better if it's purely integrated by the
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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
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Warcraft which I'm sure you guys will see soon but it it's cool seeing him
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Target things and run around with pressing very minimal amounts of buttons
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what's your favorite part about this and what's your favorite part about the window side as well so the key thing the
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key concept here is basically that a gamer will sit with one hand on the
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mouse one hand on a keyboard and what it suddenly gets with an eye tracker is an
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an ex extra way to communicate with the game because the computer knows where
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you're looking so basically you get another pointer so that increases the
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communication band with with the game in the game so then you can Target things
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or you can imagine in FIFA or football game you would just like look at the
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player who to pass the ball to press a button and there you go the other huge
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thing I think is going to be immersion so when I look at you you know when I
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look at that person he know so maybe Smiles or get pissed I don't know but
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but you know if you walk into a say a bar in a game the characters are a
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little bit dead today but now you can really look at the character and they
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come to instant life so they would just walk up to you start talking to you or
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you look at somebody's money person they get p so you can really create fantastic new
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immersion concepts with eye tracking because the real world really reacts to
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your eyes I could really see this for RPG and horror games so like an RPG game
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like you were saying staring at someone's money purse they're not going to like that because they're going to
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wonder what you're up to in a horror game if you start looking at something too closely then it could jump out at
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you and freak you out just stuff like that is actually really interesting because it adds a whole another layer to
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games something could be developed purely around this so someone who's trying to look for an idea for a game
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you could make it completely around the the the trer because like I just said
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with the uh the horror game thing I don't know how else you could integrate
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that without ey tracking to for it to really work properly instead of just
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like okay your character is standing generally in front of it so we're going to make a jump at you now suddenly you
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get the concept of this and that in a game so you can kind of do something
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with this or I'm interested there and you're what you really look is a very
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good um prediction what you think about and that's obviously a fantastic thing
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to have in a game so what are some of the ideas that you guys have come up
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with I know we just saw targeting and wow like I know there's something to do
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with the mini map and Starcraft too can you describe that yeah in Starcraft we
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do well it's pretty tedious to go down to the mini map up and down all the time
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but what you can do is basically you just press a button you get the minimap blown up over your screen you look at
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where you want to take take the take the view and you release so it's a much
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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
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necessarily A Dev but I purchased into the Oculus dev kit so if someone out
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there just wanted to kind of play with this and around with it in the meantime could they pick this up and how much
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would that cost them you can go into our website so Toby to
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i/i and then an x on the end they can go
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in there and they can purchase it for $95 and then they get the hardware
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device plug in with the USB and a dev kit and a Dev forum and documentation
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Etc right and they they could start playing around certain games immediately
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or yeah we going to have a certain examples with it but there's not going
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to be games immediately when you order right now but it's going to be at the at
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the launch of the real product basically cool so you could still show it off and
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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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