COGAIN, which is a European Union funded organization recently launched a state of the art software, that would enable users with severe motor disabilities to use the internet and other programs, with just a look of their eyes. This innovative technology that is known as the gaming-with-gaze software open up new avenues for the disabled, previously unperceived. Highly successful games such as, Second Life and World of Warcraft that employ this technology, will now be available to the the disabled users.
Patients suffering from life altering illness like, cerebral palsy, motor neurone disease (MND) or locked-in syndromes will now have an entire world right in front of them explore, with the help of their gaze and eye-tracking technology. This in turn, would be a “truly liberating experience”, according to Howell Istance, who helped develop the gaming-with-gaze software.
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