The depth-sensing, motion tracking camera, designed for the XBox games console, was a hit with gamers, but also captured the imagination of hardware developers around the world.
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Another alternative to the mouse as a pointing device is to use a gaze-tracking camera, which works out where you are looking and moves an on-screen pointer accordingly.
Certified as the first Ultrabook optimized for MS Lync, the HD face tracking camera and dual array microphones ensure high quality video and voice track capability without the need to use USB peripherals.
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The company is also (without DFKI) developing a virtual reality environment that uses a pair of active-shutter glasses and a head-tracking camera to let you wander around cave-like structures from the comfort of the lab.
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Face tracking technology allows the camera to automatically adjust focus and follow you as you move around while video chatting.
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With Canon's Hybrid CMOS AF System and Movie Servo AF, the camera provides continuous AF for focus tracking of moving subjects by helping to reduce the camera's need to "hunt", resulting in a quick and smooth continuous AF.
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We've been tracking the evolution of this camera series since the company first hit 1080p with its ContourHD line back in 2009.
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Samsung's Advanced Panorama shot with Object Tracking will further enhance the camera's wide-angle capabilities, ideal for the better capture of scenes such as vast landscapes.
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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.
The camera's subject tracking of moving objects in three dimensions, with full time servo AF (AF-F), ensures focus of moving objects throughout filming.
Even when holding it perfectly still, the camera appears to be tracking subjects that walk into the frame, resulting in the video to jump to the left or right, as you can see in the clip below.
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We've already spent some time interacting with the company's new depth-camera and eye-tracking technology, but now we wanted to dig deep to understand the thinking behind the system and what technical and practical limitations that need to be addressed before we can get to the computing future of Star Trek.
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Once a user locks onto a subject, the camera tracks the subject with AF tracking even if it moves.
Vega R3 also introduces innovative functions like 'Best Face', voice recognition, continuous recording, and tracking focus so that it can reliably substitute a regular digital camera.
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Two-dimensional tracking would be managed via the existing Move's visual spectrum camera, or by using a display-mounted IR emitter in conjunction with a remote mounted sensor (again, just like the Wii controller).
Hardware controls include power, selection and volume up and down, while the smartglasses also gauge 3-degrees of freedom through head-tracking, alongside an integrated compass and GPS. The built-in camera is capable of 1080p video in 16:9 aspect ratio, although it'll be able to capture stills too.
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Eye tracking is accomplished by two small cameras on the rim of the glasses while a scene camera records the field of view of the user.
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In order to get the functionality it needed, APX grafted a 5 megapixel camera, mic and a full suite of motion sensors to provide nine-axis head tracking onto a Moverio headset.
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