The use of Eye tracking technology is becoming easy as a mouse or keyboard.
Tobii, working in collaboration with Microsoft, Intel and EyeTech DS, have created a USB HID (Human Interface Device) standard for eye tracking.
This enables eye tracking technology to join the family of devices such as mice, keyboards, game controllers, digitizers, touchpads, and more, that have standard interfaces agreed on by USB.org.
Eye tracking is a sensor technology that enables a device to know exactly where your eyes are focused. It determines your presence, attention, focus, drowsiness, consciousness or other mental states.
This information can be used to gain deep insights into consumer behavior or to design revolutionary new user interfaces across various devices.
The new standard represents an important step for the entire eye tracking industry, users and developers.
Essentially, it establishes eye tracking as a control mechanism for consumer electronics, enabling more robust and widespread adoption of eye tracking technology across devices and applications.
News Source: https://www.tobii.com/group/news-media/press-releases/2018/5/usb-standard-established-for-eye-tracking/
