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The i beam tablet from NTT DoCoMo is controlled by sight

11.10.2012

At CEATEC 2012 in Japan, local operator NTT DoCoMo demonstrated the concept of the i beam tablet computer, which confirms that today you can not touch the display at all to work with the mobile platform. Menu navigation, opening, closing and application management are carried out at a distance from the tablet itself.

The thing is that at the bottom of the "pill" i beam is a pair of sensors that track the direction of the user's gaze. To start work, it is necessary to perform an initial calibration of the sensors, and after they are accurately adjusted to the eyes of a particular person, you can start working. A thick dot appears on the screen, which follows the direction of view and actually replaces the mouse pointer. The user is absolutely free in his actions and can perform almost all the same operations as when working on the touch screen.

According to eyewitnesses who managed to work with i beam personally, the most difficult interface element turned out to be a cross in the upper right corner, which closes applications. As a result, I even had to give up eye control and touch this on-screen button with my hand. The developers of NTT DoCoMo demonstrated a game designed for eye control, an application for viewing photos in a gallery, a browser interface and a reader. The e-book app turned out to be the most thoughtful, looking at a word more closely, you can start a search for this query, and the pages are scrolled by looking at the bottom corners. The Japanese operator is not yet ready to release this platform on the market.

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