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Someone should do this, but for the love of god, DO NOT take any venture capital to do it. No matter how well-intentioned the VCs are at the start, eventually y
by turnsout 3y ago
Someone should do this, but for the love of god, DO NOT take any venture capital to do it. No matter how well-intentioned the VCs are at the start, eventually your eye tracking startup will 100% be used for advertising as investors in your Series D need to make an exit or take you public.
- methou 3y agoeyetracking is already used by the advertisers in research for many many years, e.g: https://www.tobii.com/ https://www.tobii.com/
- ta123456789 3y ago[dead]
- turnsout 3y agoYes, in research. But once they can see what real-world users are looking at in context, in realtime, it's a different ballgame.
- ta123456789 3y agoThis already happening in many places. And does not seem to be he intended application in the OP
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- shakna 3y agoNetflix already pause their ads if their window is not in focus. Not a huge leap to pausing ads if you're not paying attention.
- 0xcde4c3db 3y agoThe overarching dystopian concept is at least a solid decade old by now. [1] [2] [1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en [2] https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoAs we are talking about a company to help people with medical problems. Second Sight was giving patients artificial eyes. When they ran out of funding, they closed shop. The patients lost support system for their eyes. If anything goes wrong with their artificial eye, there is no one to repair or fix it. They just have to carry a piece of useless metal junk in their head. https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
- jacquesm 3y agoIt will be anyway. No matter whether you take VC or not.