Magnification Vision – a Novel Gaze-Directed User Interface

We present a novel magnifying tool for virtual environments, where users are given a view of the world through a handheld window controlled by their real-time eye gaze data. The system builds on the optics of real magnifying glasses and prior work in gaze-directed interfaces. A pilot study is run to evaluate these techniques against a baseline, that reveals no significant improvement in performance, though users appear to prefer the new technique.