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Seeing Machines boss Kroeger eyes many dimensions of growth

[Excerpt from Proactive Investors . com]

…  The excitement for followers of Seeing Machines is that the Toshiba Qosmio F750 incorporates the company’s faceAPI technology, which allows the computer’s camera to track the face and eye movements of the user.

This is important as today’s high-tech screens trick the brain into thinking it is viewing pictures in three dimensions. The current success with Toshiba is based on a chip produced by a Chinese 3D technology company called SuperD.

“What our software is actually doing is allowing the web camera on the computer to track where the person’s eyes and head are so that the 3D screen images can be directed to the eyes of the viewer by the SuperD technology,” Kroeger tells Proactive Investors.

“You think of the Nintendo 3DS…you have to have the device at the right angle from the face to get the effect.

“FaceAPI software allows the computer to know where you are in relation to the screen.” …

But there are also opportunities, massive opportunities. Kroeger says the company has developed multiple face tracking that would make it possible to create the world’s first dynamic glasses-free 3D TVs. This is quite a game-changer because the current technology doesn’t really apply to TV as we often don’t watch TV by ourselves.

“The other thing that is special about the technology is you can watch 2D and 3D on different parts of the screen at the same time.”

“What’s about to happen in the next 18 to 24 months is we are going to see the first releases of consumer-focused cameras that take 3D pictures,” the Seeing Machines chief reveals. We hope to play part in that technology.  …

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