MouseTrap - the cheese is getting better with age!
Flavio Percoco Premoli has been busy plugging away on his MouseTrap work and has posted a video to YouTube:
In the video, we see the video being captured by Flavio's webcam, with the software adding a green dot to show what it has detected as the position between his eyebrows. In this video, I believe MouseTrap is being operated in "joystick mode," which means that if you move and hold your head in a particular direction, the mouse will move in that direction. Move your head back to the center, and it stops.
Flavio has submitted this as the starting point for a GOPA task, which the GOPA committee has accepted. Yeah! Under the GOPA task, Flavio will provide additional support (e.g., accelerated mouse movement and 'absolute mode') as well as the stuff most people forget to do: i18n, integration with autotools and the GNOME build, documentation, etc.
I was thinking of doing just this a few weeks ago. My idea was to have a screen reading mode which doesn't move the mouse but creates a fish-eye-like "bubble" rolling accross the screen based on eye movement. Anything within the "bubble" gets magnified (centre has max zoom and rolls off at edges). I'd love to see something like this implemented in MouseTrap. By the way, great progress. Hope Flavio carries on the good work.
Posted by Kevin on July 14, 2008 at 06:01 PM EDT #
Hi Willie!!
I'm really exited after receiving the notice that mousetrap was accepted into GOPA. Wow, I can't stay calm in my chair. :D
You're right in that video mousetrap is using joystick mode and works exactly as you explained.
Thanks again for everything and lets code... :P
Posted by Flavio Percoco on July 14, 2008 at 07:11 PM EDT #