Facebook Working on Mysterious ‘Authentic’ Robot Eyeball that Could Track Where Humans Are Looking
January 19th, 2022Via: Independent:
Facebook has patented a new technology for an “authentic” robot eye.
The idea, granted in December, would let the social media company build a “high performing and realistic” eyeball that would be like an “animatronic device” to track humans’ eye movements.
Tracking eye movements is used in digital ads to detect what people look at, as well as by its parent company Meta’s virtual reality applications. This could make it easier to load virtual items in a VR environment – only generating items that the user is looking at.
Meta says that the metaverse does not necessitate being online more but being online in a “more meaningful” way, and will be built by multiple companies.
