Umoove Brings Face & Eye Interaction to Mobile Devices

Umoove, an Israel-based mobile app that allows users to control mobile phone through face-tracking, is now available for download via the Apple App Store. Umoove not only offers a face-tracking app, but it also has an eye-tracking app in the works as well.

“The beta of the EyeSDK (software development kit) is also already being integrated with some of our partners,” Umoove CEO Yitzi Kempinski told Mashable.

“We will be launching a pilot with one of our partners in the next few months and will be releasing a product with another. In general, as apposed to the FaceSDK, the EyeSDK is not going to be open to the general public and will be available to various strategic partners only.”

Currently, this face-tracking technology comes via the Umoove game, which allows you to control a character as it flies through a virtual terrain collecting potions that increase the character’s energy supply.

The app will first asks you to move your head into a series of on-screen target circles so that it can calibrate its tracking software to your particular position and environment.

After it’s done calibrating, you’re free to begin flying through the virtual world – an experience that is addictive.

Although the only application users can use the technology for now is the free game, the video demo below also shows the technology being used to control 3D models and GPS maps on tablets.

The free game is only available on iOS, but the company has plans to release an Android version as well.

Source: mashable.com, macrumors.com