MIT Researchers Bring JavaScript To Google Glass 70
colinneagle (2544914) writes "Earlier this week, Brandyn White, a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, and Scott Greenberg, a PhD candidate at MIT, led a workshop at the MIT Media Lab to showcase an open source project called WearScript, a JavaScript environment that runs on Google Glass. White demonstrated how Glass's UI extends beyond its touchpad, winks, and head movements by adding a homemade eye tracker to Glass as an input device. The camera and controller were dissected from a $25 PC video camera and attached to the Glass frame with a 3D-printed mount. A few modifications were made, such as replacing the obtrusively bright LEDs with infrared LEDs, and a cable was added with a little soldering. The whole process takes about 15 minutes for someone with component soldering skills. With this eye tracker and a few lines of WearScript, the researchers demonstrated a new interface by playing Super Mario on Google Glass with just eye movements."
Re:Glasshole (Score:1, Interesting)
What misconcenptions or ignorance? Google Glass users are predominately self-obsessed assholes. Maybe you Google fangirls need to get your panties untwisted just because not all of us want to deepthroat Sergey Brin like you?
Re:Ph.D.? (Score:5, Interesting)
I didn't know soldering some electronics together and porting a language to a platform is Ph.D. level work.
Agreed. This is my research http://scholar.google.com/cita... [google.com] . WearScript is a tool that helps us in our current research (which is an extension of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] ). When you do research you can either use tools that already exist or you can take a detour and invest in making better tools so you can do more effective research, that's what this is.