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Can't wait to integrate this with ad serving tech to make sure users are actually watching the ads. Imagine adding little "eye catchers" to ads, and if the pupi

by umvi 7y ago

Can't wait to integrate this with ad serving tech to make sure users are actually watching the ads. Imagine adding little "eye catchers" to ads, and if the pupils don't respond, they are likely looking at a different screen or looking away from their computer which means you can safely pause the ad until you have their attention again! The possibilities are endless - integrate with mobile games and reward users whose pupils follow the eye catchers with more gems and more ads!

dual_basis 7y ago
Obligatory reference to Black Mirror season 1 episode 2, "Fifteen Million Merits".
stordoff 7y ago
Microsoft had a patent application on a very similar idea: > Television viewing tends to be a passive experience for a viewer[...] To increase interactive viewing and encourage a user to watch one or more particular items of video content, awards and achievements may be tied to those items of video content. [...] Producers, distributors, and advertisers of the video content may set viewing goals and award a viewer who has reached the goals.[...] > Additionally, the viewing behavior may include an action performable by the viewer and detectable by one or more sensors, such as a depth camera.[...] > If the viewing goal has been met, an award may be granted to the viewer. An award may be a virtual award. Such as an addition to a viewer score or an update to an avatar associated with the viewer https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130125161 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130125161
taneq 7y ago
You say this sarcastically but there will be thousands of people out there thinking exactly this in earnest. Ugh.
your-nanny 7y ago
disable camera. the day that is no longer possible is the day I go offline
dpcx 7y ago
There was a feature advertised for Android phones a few years ago (IIRC) that I always felt would be used for this kind of purpose. Basically, if the phone was playing video and was no longer pointed to your face, it would pause the video. I could be wrong on the specifics here, but that seems close to what the feature advertised was.

by umvi 7y ago

dual_basis 7y ago

Obligatory reference to Black Mirror season 1 episode 2, "Fifteen Million Merits".

stordoff 7y ago

Microsoft had a patent application on a very similar idea: > Television viewing tends to be a passive experience for a viewer[...] To increase interactive viewing and encourage a user to watch one or more particular items of video content, awards and achievements may be tied to those items of video content. [...] Producers, distributors, and advertisers of the video content may set viewing goals and award a viewer who has reached the goals.[...] > Additionally, the viewing behavior may include an action performable by the viewer and detectable by one or more sensors, such as a depth camera.[...] > If the viewing goal has been met, an award may be granted to the viewer. An award may be a virtual award. Such as an addition to a viewer score or an update to an avatar associated with the viewer https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130125161 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130125161

taneq 7y ago

You say this sarcastically but there will be thousands of people out there thinking exactly this in earnest. Ugh.

your-nanny 7y ago

disable camera. the day that is no longer possible is the day I go offline

dpcx 7y ago

There was a feature advertised for Android phones a few years ago (IIRC) that I always felt would be used for this kind of purpose. Basically, if the phone was playing video and was no longer pointed to your face, it would pause the video. I could be wrong on the specifics here, but that seems close to what the feature advertised was.