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[Hit the Deck]

Well, the question is in the title. The use eye tracking to aim a vehicle's weapon(s) makes perfect sense and I imagine that it's pretty much superior in all aspect compared to fumbling with a hand actuated device to move the aiming reticle. One disadvantage that I can think of is that when you need to look at different things in your cockpit or observe the various indicators on you HUD in a very short of amount of time.

[Rushin Roulette]

I imagine it would be especially embarrasing if you quickly check up on your nearly cored teammate while you hade a nice Gauss shot lined up on the enemy.

[Ascaloth]

This would only work for a dedicated gunner, because if you are driving you need to keep your eyes on many things, like obstacles, rear mirrors/cameras, panel items/commands, etc.

[Hit the Deck]

Rushin Roulette, on 10 August 2015 - 03:27 AM, said:

I imagine it would be especially embarrasing if you quickly check up on your nearly cored teammate while you hade a nice Gauss shot lined up on the enemy.

I was thinking about this very issue and I imagine that you need to press a button to engage the eye tracking to prevent accidental "pointing the gun to your lancemates". But this waste a finger or a hand which can perform other task.

[Lily from animove]

So you beam your lasers, and suddnely somehing distracts you, which causes you to shoot somewhere else (like the seismic on the radar indicating an opponent) ? probably not a good idea, But then I don't know how the system reacts to specific "short distractions" like this.

But it would indeed be vey interesting at all to see hwo this turns out. can you make a vid of it in action?

Edited by Lily from animove, 10 August 2015 - 05:38 AM.

[Ascaloth]

Maybe you could make it work only when using Advanced Zoom, since this makes your vision tunneled anyway and it's barely useful while moving.

[XxXAbsolutZeroXxX]

Focusing eyes on a single point sacrifices situational awareness.

A person couldn't scan left and right, up and down with their eyes while keeping their weapons trained on a target.