What They Say
An intriguing press release came through in advance from CES that is from a company that we don’t know called Somalytics. The firm has a new touch system based on capacitive sensors using a carbon nanotube paper composite. The technology is not transparent, so couldn’t be used on a display as far as we could see, but can be used to monitor gestures and can detect human presence at 20cm.
What caught our eye (sorry!) is the ability to perform gaze recognition. The firm’s recently appointed CEO, Barbara Barclay, who has worked with Eyecare and previously for Tobii.
“Somalytics’ sensors will open an entire new era for wearable eye tracking because the sensors are not camera based and there is no illumination of the eye required. The processing speed is under three milliseconds, and the sampling rate is 10 times faster than best-in-class existing technologies. With Somalytics’ sensors, eye tracking will evolve to accomplish the ‘real feel’ and ‘real-time eye to eye’ experience for which augmented and virtual reality users have long waited.”
What We Think
The firm highlighted also the low power of their gaze solution. The level of processing needed for good gaze recognition is a challenge for lots of applications. (BR)
