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Originally Posted by Faterson
I think what both of us are really waiting for, Sue, is controlling the page flips and/or autoscroll speed with our eyes!  Like, wink at Marvin with your right eye, and Marvin flips a page forward! (Or speeds up the autoscroll.) Wink with your left eye, and Marvin flips a page back, or slows down the autoscroll. Wasn't Samsung boasting of already being able to do something like that (detect the user's eye movements) on the newest Galaxy phones? |
Yesterday at the mall, a lady tried to sell a Galaxy Note 3 to me for €600. (Ideally coupled with Galaxy Gear for an additional €290.)
Anyway, she proceeded to demo all the features to me, although I made it clear I wasn't buying the things. Maybe she was bored. I can attest that the eyes movement detection works (it's almost scary) for scrolling a webpage. Also, look away while a video-clip is playing, and it automatically pauses; look at the screen again, and it automatically resumes play. (Which may not always be the desired behaviour if you're only watching something casually; the eyes movement detection can easily be toggled on and off, though.) There was no e-reader app installed on the demo unit (a mistake!), so I couldn't test whether flipping pages in books using your eyes only would work, but it's very likely it might, at least in theory, and especially in e-readers like Moon+ Pro Reader, where you can optionally either flip pages, or simply
scroll vertically in books as if they were webpages. (No explicit switching between the two modes is needed, either: both reading progress modes are available simultaneously at all times.)
Anyway, that's some potentially great functionality, and it might also greatly assist persons with disabilities in that no haptic feedback whatsoever would be needed any longer to read through an entire book.
I wonder if we ever get to see this functionality on iOS devices.