Every website sizes its font differently but most try to put their font at a size that will be comfortable for most people. However, users that like to read on their tablet or laptop find that depending on how far away they are sitting form their device they need to zoom in or out of a page to get a comfortable reading size for the font. Marko Dugonjić, a designer in Croatia, may have solved this problem by developing a demo page that re-sizes the screen depending on how far away the user is sitting from the screen. A demo of the technology is currently running on Dugonjić’s website, Maratz.com. The designer is able to do the auto adjust magic by first connecting to the users webcam and recording the reader’s movement. The webpage constantly re-sizes itself so that a user is reading comfortably.
The page is still in beta so their are some issue which can make the page zoom in and out too quickly. The technology is interesting though and if the creator can fix all the bugs they should have a very good product on their hands. Some uses for the technology could include using it with TV’s where the screen adjusts to the position of the viewer and readjusting its size. This would allow TV watchers to move around as they watch the tube and do other work like cleaning, working, cooking or exercising. Of course other uses for the head tracking software can be found including making it useful for tablets, mobiles and also implementing it on devices for the elderly so that the screen readjusts to make every thing a little bigger than normal.
The code for the tracking software is available on Github where the creators explain that “headtrackr is a javascript library for real-time face tracking and head tracking, tracking the position of a users head in relation to the computer screen, via a web camera and the webRTC/getUserMedia standard.” They also ask that a user will need to be accessing the webpage “with a laptop that has a camera and a browser that has camera webRTC/getUserMedia support (for instance Opera 12).”
Dugonjić sates on his website that he “is a designer, speaker and web enthusiast running a nano-scale web design studio Creative Nights in Velika Gorica, Croatia.” He also adds that the Maratz site “is a personal playground, a sandbox for new web design concepts. Occasionally, some entries are added, mostly about work and the industry.”
Source: PSFK
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