There are rumors that an upcoming Apple release will feature technology developed by an Israeli company, uMoove, which allows devices to respond to the movement of a user’s eyes and face.
Called eye-tracking, the technology is already available to an extent in Samsung’s Galaxy S4 device. With the S4, users can pause a video by looking away from the screen while it’s playing. The phone “knows” when to pause playback because of the eye-tracking technology built into it; if the front-facing camera detects that a user’s eyes have moved, the video stops playback.
Start-up uMoove’s technology, detecting eye movements and “gentle head movements” to control apps and phone functions, is far more ambitious, and its API (application programming interface) is open to all phone manufacturers and app developers.
For a while there were rumors that uMoove was the company supplying the Samsung device with its movement technology, but those seem to have died down since the S4 was released last spring.
uMoove is said to have the most advanced eye- and head-tracking technology around; the company has been working on it for the past three years. Among the things uMoove can do, based on interviews with company executives, is provide variable speed scrolling speeds; a zoom function activated by head movements; control and selection of items by tracking eye movements on the screen; navigation; oh, and the video pausing trick, as well.
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