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There's already cheap technology to do this using a Wii remote camera attached to the screen and a pair of IR LEDS mounted on your glasses.

Those low resolution IR cameras must have been produced in such huge quantities I bet they are pretty cheap now. You can buy a Wii-mote for $50 retail and that includes lots of expensive hardware you don't need such as a bluetooth transceiver and a pair of accelerometers.




Specifically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

Check out his entire youtube channel, it is full of interesting software/hardware hacks.


I mean without these "johnny chung lee wiimote goggles" :) It would be awesome doing the same using only webcam head-tracking.




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