It’s easy to find out what one has seen on the internet with a simple history search. But what if people knew what you were seeing in real-time through your eyes?

With the rise of online data collection, privacy has become one of the urging topics on the public consciousness when it comes to the internet and emerging technologies. Through this project I proposed an extreme case of privacy invasion via headgear which projects the wearer’s gaze direction onto real life objects through a laser pointer.

Participants were asked to wear the headset in a public setting; discussions are then conducted with the participants and some of the interested on-lookers. By translating a person’s gaze into physical motion in real time, participants are given a more intuitive and direct understanding of eye-tracking technology. Many participants started brain-storming its possible uses, both positive and negative. The majority of the opinions indicate that while this technology has obvious potential in a wide variety of fields— from medical to entertainment— its potential to undermine gaze privacy is deeply unnerving.