1. it would be even cooler if they had wheels so they could follow you around

Posted at 12:53AM on Apr 11th 2007 by bird603568

2. This is one of the cooler things I've seen on hackaday in quite a while.

I like the fact he's doing the video processing with mplayer instead of some VB application, I hope he posts the source for his filter soon.

Posted at 1:03AM on Apr 11th 2007 by insanikamil

3. I read the entire article but still can't seem to understand what you mean by "handy for testing out connections and great for screwing with new people who had wide open servers." Could someone please clear that up for me?

"2. This is one of the cooler things I've seen on hackaday in quite a while." -AGREED!

Posted at 1:24AM on Apr 11th 2007 by Captin Shmit

4. what number three said

Posted at 1:29AM on Apr 11th 2007 by luigi517

5. Xeyes is an old x windows application that drew a pair of eyes that followed your mouse around. See the wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeyes

Posted at 1:33AM on Apr 11th 2007 by Will O'Brien

6. #3+#4 "handy for testing out connections" he's referring to the inherent remote nature of xwindows, which is designed from the ground up to run over a network. if you had a remote session and wanted to test the connection, you could load up xeyes and move your mouse around. if the eyes follow the cursor smoothly and with no lag, you have a good connection; if the motion is jerky and takes a while for the eyes to "see" your cursor, the connection is not so great. and of course if someone left their server wide open, you can easily push an app onto their screen. kind of a "hello, you're owned" deal.

Posted at 2:07AM on Apr 11th 2007 by Garrett

7. Now thats just freaking awesome! Simple, yet testing very high on the cool-ability meter....hacks like this are excellent coated excellence with excellent filling!

I knew i had faith in HAD for good reason.....thanks Will! keep it up, bud.

Posted at 3:07AM on Apr 11th 2007 by mr. jones

8. I'd love to see a video of the creator running in front of his xeyes with a cardboard mouse pointer in hands ;-)

Posted at 2:09PM on Apr 11th 2007 by Marco

9. Agreed- is a really sweet hack. I never knew about Xeyes though until now...

Forgive my novice understanding, but would it be possible to add a third eye for triangulation purposes? I'm thinking, use this setup to control 3 devices, such as lasers instead of eyes, to triangulate a moving object in real time somehow using movement vectors. Does anyone think this could be done somehow, by combining movement vectors with distance vectors, ie: something moving closer or farther from the sight camera?

Just the ramblings of a madman, maybe...

Posted at 3:03PM on Apr 11th 2007 by shogun

10. funny how i always hated xeyes. This is cool, imagine being some guy walking down the street and noticing that the eyes were following you, it could freak you out!

Posted at 4:59PM on Apr 11th 2007 by fucter

11. >
The eyes are not used for any kind of input at all. They are just rotating cardboard pieces used as output. For input he uses a camera, i.e. 2D input. To get 3d information you'd have to either use a distance sensor (e.g. the ever popular laser scanners) or guesstimate distance based on size of the object in the camera image and a reference size.

Posted at 4:59PM on Apr 11th 2007 by Marco

12. Wait, is Xeyes really from windows? I thought it was originally on Linux...

Posted at 4:16PM on Apr 13th 2007 by max

13. He said X Windows (X Window System), not MS Windows.

Posted at 5:14PM on Apr 17th 2007 by shill

14. [. Xeyes is an old x windows application that drew a pair of eyes that followed your mouse around. See the wikipedia article.]

Not just xwindows had or has xeyes. FVWM has it aswell, which i use alot on my SuSE 9.2

Posted at 1:12PM on Apr 19th 2007 by coldironhands