How It Works »

Video of George explaining AccuPointAccuPoint™ tracks the movement of a small cluster of dots affixed by double-sided tape to the user — there are no wires or equipment connected to the person. While we anticipate that most people will use the AccuPoint™system for head tracking, the device can track anything the cluster is attached to – fingers, toes, anything! George demonstrates in the video on the right.

To get started the user sits in a relaxed position a couple of feet in front of AccuPoint. AccuPoint will find the dot cluster with its cameras and present a calibration target. Once calibrated, the cursor remains aligned to the user's head.

To select items on the computer screen the user points to the desired spot and holds their head still -- a process called "dwell." The user can set the dwell time, and dwell can be turned on and off to prevent inadvertent clicking. If the user prefers switch input to dwelling, there are two programmable switch ports on the back panel of AccuPoint™ for inputting left and right mouse clicks via the user’s favorite switch.

Each of InvoTek's software programs offers a wide range of settings to optimize AccuPoint for the user. You can adjust the amount of head movement that is required to move the cursor across the screen and add filtering to remove the effects of head jitter.

AccuPoint™ has a standard threaded mounting hole used by photographers for mounting cameras (¼-20 mounting thread). Included with AccuPoint™ is a small tripod. Also included is a plastic pocket for easily mounting AccuPoint to a laptop mount. AccuPoint™ weighs only 9 ounces and connects to computers running Microsoft® Windows® XP, Microsoft® Windows Vista™ or Windows 7 operating systems via a USB port.

There are many more options -- contact us if you have a specific question or concern.