It has also experimented with what Krulwich calls movement tracking.
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Add eye-movement tracking, hinting at which display ads were overlooked and which were studied for any period of time, and the approach offers precisely the sort of quantitative data brand managers yearn for.
Designed and built with both casual and serious FPS gaming in mind, the MAG II features 3 pre-programmed sensitivity options and is the only gun controller to incorporate Motion Sensing and Gyroscopic Induction movement tracking.
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The self-tracking movement has already done a lot to raise awareness.
With the help of those who find the CDs, Neely is tracking the movement of his album on his Web site.
As a result, the researchers seem slightly at loss as to what to do with the technology, with their best suggestions so far being watching the growth of foliage or tracking the movement of rocks.
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But at the same time, that desire to ask bigger and better questions is also on the rise in the US, according to the author Warren Berger, who has been tracking a movement toward questioning that is running very strong in Silicon Valley, but also seems to be spreading throughout the business, nonprofit and education sectors, according to Berger.
In addition to an infrared camera and projector, the Kinect features a microchip that performs "skeletal tracking, " or following movement without using a camera lens.
In the coming years sensors will pop up in more and more household objects tracking things like air quality, movement, vital signs and other stats.
The software detects the slightest deviations of facial movement in the eyes, cheeks, and mouth, tracking whether a person smiles, grins, or breaks out in laughter.
If this sounds weirdly narcissistic, consider that the movement has a forebear in a quintessential American: Benjamin Franklin, the founding father of self-tracking.
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