Tobii's eye-tracking controls in Dying Light.
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Hands-on with Tobii’s eye-tracking laptop controls

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Oscar Werner, president of Tobii Tech, gave me a rundown of the company’s eye-tracking technology for games at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas earlier this month. And I’m finally getting around to relating that experience. With those demos, I’ve got a better idea about whether this will be the next great user interface for games.

Stockholm-based Tobii’s platform tracks your eye movements and uses them to control a computer.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.