Here’s a first look at Google Project GameFace, a hands-free gaming mouse that uses head movement and facial gestures to control a computer’s cursor. This project was inspired by Lance Carr, a gamer with muscular dystrophy who lost all of his gaming equipment in a house fire including an expensive head-tracking mouse.
Project GameFace basically utilizes Google MediaPipe open-source solutions. This platform captures head movements and facial gestures directly from a webcam before being processed by machine learning models to move the cursor accordingly. Different users have varying needs, so the team incorporated the idea of a gesture size, thus enabling users to control how prominent their gesture needs to be to trigger a mouse action. The code is open source and available in preview starting today here.
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- 11 customizable buttons and onboard memory: Assign custom commands to the buttons and save up to five ready to play profiles directly to the mouse
- Adjustable weight system: Arrange up to five removable 3.6 grams weights inside the mouse for personalized weight and balance tuning
The tool is still in development, but we’re excited about the potential it has to change the lives of people because it’s relatively inexpensive to build and maintain,” said Miguel de Andrés-Clavera, Group Product Manager, Google PI.
