Google’s Project Gameface hands-free ‘mouse’ is now available on Android

The company last year Google I/O hands-free gaming “mouse” that lets users control the computer’s cursor with head movements and facial movements, unveiled at developer conference Project
GamefaceHe introduced . This year Google, Project
Gameface announced that it is open-sourcing more code for Android, allowing developers to create Android applications that can use the technology.

The tool uses the phone’s front camera to track facial expressions and head movements, which can be used to control a virtual cursor. For example, a user might view items on the screen as “to chooseYou can smile or make a
Android can raise his left eyebrow to return to the phone’s home screen. Users can also set thresholds or movement sizes for each emoticon, thus controlling how specific their emoticons need to be to trigger a particular mouse action.

Google’s Project Gameface hands-free ‘mouse’ is now available on Android

Company Project GamefaceGame streamer with a muscle-weakening disease Lance
Carr Developed with. Carr was using a mouse that tracked his head movements to play games before a fire destroyed his home and expensive equipment. The first version of Project Gameface focused on gaming and used a webcam to detect facial expressions; but Google knew all along that it had many other potential uses.

For the Android launch of the tool Googlehas collaborated with an Indian organization called Incluzza, which supports people with disabilities. partnership, company Project
GamefaceIt gave me the chance to learn how ‘s can help people with disabilities further their education, communicate more easily with friends and family, and find jobs online. Googlehas published the project’s open source code on GitHub and hopes more developers will decide to “leverage it to create new experiences.”