To encourage software development in this area, DFKI posted a plug-in that e-book developers can use to experiment with the new format's possibilities using eye-tracking hardware or a mouse pointer simulating the reader's gaze ( see video). The hardware is still bulky and expensive (the Tobii x120 pictured here costs tens of thousands of dollars, with the price depending on volume), but hardware prices drop precipitously when technology migrates from specialized fields, like helping paraplegics control things, to general fields, like reading.
To compete for our attention with other methods of storytelling, books need to evolve – especially for readers born more recently – and Text 2.0 is one way forward that appears to respect the written word, enhancing our ability to consume it rather than subjugating it to multimedia fireworks. I'm not reading as many books as I used to, and publishing figures suggest I'm not the only one. If Text 2.0 becomes a reality, whether on the iPad or somewhere else, count me in. Having grown up a bookworm in the '70s and '80s, I prefer the feel and even the smell of paper books – and the fact that I can just chuck one in my bag for whenever I have a spare moment, without worrying about batteries, theft or breakage. Before you take these as the self-serving written words of an e-reader junkie addicted to whatever new way there is to read, I should admit that I have yet to make the leap to an e-reader. Produced in a tasteful, helpful way, Text 2.0 promises to resurrect book-reading in a new form.
But these are the same kind of best-practices challenges that taught us not to hyperlink every word on a web page, or send someone to a corporate site at the mention of any company name. Granted, it might be a bit over-the-top to add contextual information about whales' feeding habits to Moby Dick when your eye lingers on a certain passage for too long, and Text 2.0's potential for abuse could be greater than its potential utility. Text 2.0 will no doubt draw its share of naysayers – some of the same people who decry electronic text as inferior even when it contains the same information as the dead-tree version. Introducing TD Pilot, an eye-controlled communication device for iPad. Global Nav Open MenuGlobal Nav Close MenuAppleAppleMaciPadiPhoneWatchTVMusicSupportWhere Buy iPad User Guide Open Menu Close Menu Communities. This could present incalculable opportunities to reinvigorate the written word, and become a key differentiator from print – a positive one. Communication apps, speech generating devices, eye trackers and eye gaze/eye-controlled devices for people with disabilities and special needs who require AAC. No matter whether you want to track your own iPhone to recover its data or maybe the iPhone of your partner to learn about their activities, iPhone tracking is always helpful. With eye-tracking technologies already in Apple's possession, e-readers more popular than ever before, and Apple set to unleash an e-reader that's more computer than it is book, the stage is set for eye-tracking technology to appear on next-generation tablets. Iphone x eye tracking app, iphone x face tracking.