Eye Mario System enables your face to control any NES game (video)
By Darren Murph 
posted August 4th 2010 11:08AM
posted August 4th 2010 11:08AM
posted August 4th 2010 11:08AM
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* Looks up to jump over hole *
* Cant see if I have jumped over hole yet, Looks back down *
* Falls in hole, Game over *
@uckApple
*Fly flies past*
*Distracted by fly*
*Fall in Lava*
@d0mth0ma5 It would be fun to play Kaizo Mario World with this.
@uckApple Waterloo sounds familiar to me, am I the only one?
Not practical as a primary input device but HUGE potential as a supplemental accessory. For example, move character with controller, spot the enemy with your eyes, click to shoot.
@uckApple Exactly
@uckApple
If I roll my eyes can I finally now do a spinning pile driver?
@uckApple
Yeah you are right man, they should definitely reverse the control mechanism. By this way, you can just tilt your head while you are looking the screen...
@uckApple Dang, they were gonna play Mario 2 but then they played Mario 1. Shart! I want to see some eye-controlled Tryclyde ass-whoopin!
@uckApple
The sad thing is, I didnt even watch the video before I posted that comment, I just knew it would happen (but I didnt think they would show such a design flaw)
I love their sense of humor tho xD
I'd rather use the mind control controller any day!
@yeoldgreat1
looks like the eyephone just got 1 step closer.
Go Mom!
if they were REALLY smart, they'd set it to joystick style controls so that up is down left is right, etc. that way you could keep your eyes on the screen and just move your head
So thats how I looked as a kid when I played Mario
Alarming .............
Perfect for people who are too fat and lazy even to make the physical exertions required to use a D-pad?
@ajwoodhouse not at all. Its just a proof that science is amazing.
trying to bring in obese people is mean. They can move their fingers just fine.
@VLangs Yeah, they just have trouble pressing one button at a time.
Quite nice proof of concept, this shows that making ugly faces has a great deal of potential LOL
The end of the video made it seem like a drug commercial. Still pretty cool!
Eye eye!
@MVMNT eye don't see the point?
MARIO 2 XD
he was doing soooo well. until he looked away from the screen...
He put in Mario 2, but they were playing Mario 1! HAX!
Release the stephen hawkings jokes!
If this is for the console only then excellent! If not then fail... already been done.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826100006
Nao you don't even have to move those tiresome fingers!
Welcome to a hole new meaning of couch potato.
Try Street Fighter with this...
* serious eyestrain *
It would work much better if they kept the eyes fixed on the screen and moved just the head; it would simply require them to invert the controls.
That's the iMario for you.
That man looks like he's in pain.
I think they used the wrong sensors, those ones I think are driving electric current into the mans eyeballs.
I bet they still can't beat SMB2 (The Lost Levels).
I'll be keeping my focus locked on their initiatives as well, seeing as how this is almost the same project that a group of us presented at the TechCrunch Disrupt event about two months ago (which won btw)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMNtrLcbCNk
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/23/future-mario-twitter-demographics-and-worst-phone-ever-win-the-tcdisrupt-hackathon/
This would be better for duck hunt.
*look at duck*
*blink*
*duck is dead*
@reallynotnick
*Blinks - 1 bullet wasted*
*Blinks - 2 bullets wasted*
*Blinks - 3 bullets wasted*
*Out of bullets*
*Game over*
@uckApple
You would have to play like O_O
Try playing I wanna Be The guy with this.
This is great but couldn't they use that money for poor people instead. Fuck
So instead of making this technology available to quadriplegics and other disabled people that could actually use this to enable life changing mobility they decide to hook it up to an NES to play video games.
Sign of the times. The MySpace generation at it's best.
So instead of making this technology available to quadriplegics and other disabled people that could actually use this to enable life changing mobility they decide to hook it up to an NES to play video games.
Sign of the times. The MySpace generation at it's best.
Wait a second - the cartridge that they couldn't get to play was SMB2 (the US Version), but they were actually playing Mario 1. I saw the edits, but why not just reshoot with Mario 1?
Yeah don't bother mentioning that there is a new Android released every week on every carrier.....thats irrelevant, eh? Android fanboys have resorted to lying now....
This is Great! A way to say I'm a nerd to girls without actually talking to them now.
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how come these guys dont test something either simpler like making pacman navigate a maze or something a bit more complex like tetrix or gears of war? ok gears of war is a bit of a leap. but almost everything is Mario. nintendo must be warming up their lawyers to sue for unintended use of a game cartridge