Chromebook Facial Control Is Cool
My Chromebook just had another update, and it’s now gained the ability to be controlled using facial gestures. And it’s pretty cool.
This is the future I want to live in, where devices don’t require hands or speech to be controlled and things feel a bit more like the future we were promised in the movies. I had a play and by default the mouse cursor is moved by moving my head, and smiling clicks the left mouse button.
I changed it a bit so that blinking clicked the mouse, but that soon turned using my Chromebook into a game of trying not to blink to avoid randomly clicking on everything. Fun for about 30 seconds, but got old quick.
Apart from the obvious accessibility uses, I think it’d be useful if my main PC could watch my eyes and warp the mouse pointer to whichever screen I am looking at. I’m forever losing my mouse pointer. Combine it with the way Linux window managers can do “focus follows mouse” and I might get my long standing wish of having a computer that just knows which window needs input.
