Industry Insight from Eye-Com’s Eye Tracking Experts…An interview with Eliot Drake

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What does the future hold for Eye-Com Corporation and the eye tracking industry? This next article is a continuation of the exclusive interview with Eye-Com Hardware Expert, Eliot Drake. He provides us with his opinion on the top three industries he anticipates will be the most impacted by eye tracking technology in the future.

Eliot’s Outlook on the Future of Eye Tracking

In the previous article, we got the inside scoop on the new EC7T eye frames from Eye-Com Corporation’s hardware designer, Eliot Drake. With a focus on aesthetics and ergonomics, Eliot’s latest design is the beginning of a transition from a developmental prototype to something more suitable for commercial production. Beyond the progress being made at Eye-Com Corporation, Eliot is very optimistic about the future of eye tracking technology as a whole.

There are three primary industries he envisions will be impacted by advancements in eye tracking and biometric technologies. The first is the fairly young, yet rapidly emerging augmented reality industry. With augmented reality, people are presented with information about their surrounding environment through some sort of digital visual display. This display is anything from a computer or TV screen to a smart phone, or as Eliot speculates, through a pair of eye tracking glasses with a heads-up display. In the future, a user wearing an eye tracking device could look at a building such as a movie theater and be presented with information like show times or even movie trailers.

Another industry Eliot sees as being greatly influenced by advancements in eye tracking is the transportation industry. He narrates a potential scenario:
“Imagine driving a car that has eye tracking, augmented reality, biometrics, and oculometrics all integrated where the system is able to determine if you are in a traffic jam or cruising down the highway and selectively allowing phone calls to go through through based on your level of fatigue, stress, or the amount of attention needed to be devoted to the road.”

Military training is the third industry that he predicts will greatly improve due to advanced eye tracking technology. Training directors will be able to observe exactly what soldiers look at during training scenarios and can determine whether the soldier is responding to the appropriate threats. It may also be used to gauge the accuracy and speed of soldiers’ target recognition. When integrated with other biometrics like heart rate or brainwave activity, an eye tracking device could monitor soldiers’ physiological states and performance under conditions of fatigue or stress, for example.

Eliot believes that there are lots of possibilities for eye tracking development. Check back to read what Eye-Com’s CEO, Ky Good, says is the company’s most valuable asset and what factors make Eye-Com’s advanced EC7T platform stand out in the competitive marketplace.