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July 22, 2009
Attention conditional playback
It always happens to me that while i'm watching a movie on netflix i get distracted by something else on my screen. I thought it would be cool if the movie only played back if i had my attention on it. Here is a quick test of how this could be implemented.
This happens too with page ads. I don't like having a video banner always looping in my screen. it would be cool if it could react to my attention.
Yesterday i thought on the idea that the movie could detect our face (our eyes could be better but that will be part 2 of this experiment) and playback accordingly or pause if it doesn't detect it.
I prepared a quick experiment using face detection and flv playback. The video is from a web campaign we are working on currently.
Note: If you are on a slow connection please visit the link wait for it to load (it will not work properly first time) and then reload the page so the video will be cached. Video is 27 MB.
http://blog.funciton.com/blogfiles/lab/faceAd/
Be sure you are under good light and also to have a webcam. It will try to detect your face so if the video doesn't playback please try changing your face angle.
Thoughts?
--fernando
La pregunta es ¿como haces para ver Netflix en Perú?