Windows 10 Gets 'Eye Control' Feature & also a new colour scheme to the Command Prompt Console

Microsoft has announced beta version of 'Eye Control' feature for Windows10 to operate an on-screen mouse and keyboard that lets users control much of the interface with just eye movements. It is requires a compatible eye tracker, like the Tobii Eye Tracker 4C. When users turn on Eye Control, a launch pad appears that allows then reads eye movements and gives access to mouse, keyboard, and text-to-speech tool. Users will also be able to reposition the UI to the opposite side of the screen.There is also an Eye Control interaction model to interact with the Windows UI, where looking at the UI will activate it along with voice guidance. Eye Control only works initially with the US English language keyboard support,later they add add more keyboard layouts. Users can control the mouse by simply selecting the mouse from the launch pad, position their eyes on the screen where they want the cursor to be placed. Users can select the keyboard from the launch pad and 'dwell' on the characters they want to type. This Eye Control feature currently supports only with selected eye trackers of Tobii hardware, however Microsoft plans to bring more devices in future.

Microsoft Console or command prompt that has now been overhauled to include a new colour scheme for the first time in more than 20 years. The same Windows10 Insider Preview Build (v16257) now brings support for additional default colours on the command prompt, giving users a dramatic change to Windows Console's legacy blue to improve its legibility Windows10 testers will only be able to see new colours as the default Console scheme only if they clean-install the build 16257. However, upgrading Windows to this new build will brings new colours but without the new defaults. Microsoft will also be soon releasing a tool that will help testers apply this new colour scheme and a selection of alternative colour schemes to the Windows Console.

Friday, August 04, 2017