Acer's new gaming monitor will let you blow things up with your eyes
BERLIN -- Computer monitors, like TVs, get better every year with more pixels, greater brightness and higher contrast. That's all great, but Acer is shaking things up with the first monitor to boast built-in eye-tracking technology for gaming.
Acer announced the Predator XB271HUT, a 27-inch gaming monitor with Tobii's eye-tracking sensor, at tech show IFA 2016.
The flat display has a resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 pixels and also features NVIDIA's G-Sync technology for smooth, high-frame-rate gaming.
The marquee feature is the eye-tracking bar below the screen, which can scan the movement of your eyes to track where on the screen you're focused.
Despite Tobii working on the technology for years, PC makers have been slow to implement it into their machines.
At the CES tech fest in January, I got to try it on MSI's gaming laptop with a modded version of Grand Theft Auto 5. The technology still needed polish, but the eye-tracking works great. I was able to shoot rockets at helicopters and cars just by looking at them.
For gaming, eye tracking has the potential to change how you control the camera and, well, blow things up with your eyes.
The monitor will be available in Europe, the Middle East and Asia for €899 (about $1,000) in December. No word on when it will arrive in North America. There's always importing, right?
BONUS: Eyes-on with MSI's laptop with built-in eye tracking
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