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Author Topic: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements  (Read 15384 times)

40hz

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Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« on: January 14, 2009, 10:08 AM »
Where does gHacks find these things? 8)

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http://www.ghacks.ne...-mouse-head-control/

Computer Mouse Head Control
Posted by Martin in Windows, software 
Tags: computer mouse, headmouse 2, mouse, webcam, webcam mouse, Windows, windows software


HeadMouse 2 is a interesting software program for computer users who cannot or do not like to use their hands when controlling the computer mouse. The software is compatible with most Windows operating systems including Windows Vista or Windows XP. The only other requirement is a webcam with a minimum resolution of 640×480. The program will initiate a user face detection during first run to calibrate the webcam for best results.



Direct link to HeadMouse 2:
  http://robotica.udl....se2/headmouse2e.html

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2009, 10:19 AM »
Is this based on the same technology that software that was supposed to emulate what the wii did on the PC? I can't remember the name.

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2009, 10:21 AM »
Where does gHacks find these things? 8)

Serching the DC forum, maybe?

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2009, 10:32 AM »
Zing! Ouch, another validation to the accusation of Ghacks scraping DC forum contents.  :P

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2009, 10:37 AM »
ghacks is always finding and reporting cool stuff -- including reporting on programs that come out of DC -- three cheers to martin i say  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:


martin can't help it if the dc crowd is a bit ahead of the curve sometimes :)

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2009, 11:37 AM »
Well...it was news to me at least. ;D

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2009, 06:12 PM »

I don't need a webcam to accomplish this. I can control the mouse perfectly well by pushing it with my nose. The tricky bit comes in trying to watch both monitors while doing so.

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2009, 08:12 PM »
I don't need a webcam to accomplish this. I can control the mouse perfectly well by pushing it with my nose. The tricky bit comes in trying to watch both monitors while doing so.
-cranioscopical (January 14, 2009, 06:12 PM)

You should wear a beaked doctor's mask (a.k.a. plague mask)

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2009, 09:30 PM »
I knew that medical bills were large, but that is excessive!

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2009, 03:54 AM »
I don't need a webcam to accomplish this. I can control the mouse perfectly well by pushing it with my nose. The tricky bit comes in trying to watch both monitors while doing so.
-cranioscopical (January 14, 2009, 06:12 PM)

 Pinocchio? ;D I might have known you'd come up with a quip!
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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2009, 04:22 AM »
I knew that medical bills were large, but that is excessive!



ok chris, it's going to be hard to top that one even with all of 2009 to do it.

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2009, 04:41 AM »
I think he deserves a DC award?

Best Sense Of Humour!


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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2009, 09:53 PM »
[it's going to be hard to top that one

To try would make me goggle-eyed.

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2009, 09:58 PM »
I think he deserves a DC award?

Nincompoop of the year still up for grabs?


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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2009, 01:02 AM »
 :Thmbsup: ;D ;D