You've blasted asteroids with your eyes, but are you ready to shoot virtual bad guys just by looking at them? That's the promise of a new game controller in development from SteelSeries, powered by Tobii's eye-tracking technology.
Tobii has been slowly upgrading and improving its eye-tracking technology for years, first creating a laptop with eye control, then showing what was possible with an arcade version of Eye Asteroids. Developers have been able to unlock the possibilities of eye control with the company's Rex peripheral, and now the tech will finally be going commercial with the coming SteelSeries product.
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The device doesn't have a name yet, but it will be based on the Tobii EyeX, a new peripheral with the company's latest and greatest eye-tracking tech. Developers will be able to get their hands on the EyeX in March, and they can preorder it now from Tobii's website for $95.
What kind of games will benefit most from eye tracking? That's up to the devs, but Tobii mentions a "more immersive" gaming experience for first-person shooters (think Call of Duty) specifically as well as strategy games. In a shooter, a player could gaze at an object onscreen to aim a weapon, then push a button to fire.
In role-playing games, non-player characters could react to eye contact in different ways, with a shy person turning away or a more aggressive personality taking issue with being stared at.
And as Tobii points out in its announcement, gaze can also reveal intent. For example, looking at an onscreen receiver in a football game might suggest you'll pass to him, and the other players (whether real or virtual) may react accordingly.

No word on a price or release date of the consumer peripheral, but SteelSeries says it will announce more details in the "coming months."
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