Bengaluru's Incluzza helps Google bring accessible gaming closer home
Project Gameface, an open source, hands-free, on-device, AI-powered ‘mouse’ developed by Google, was designed through feedback from Incluzza, a social enterprise in Bengaluru that supports people with disabilities. Gameface allows users to control a cursor on a phone, computer or tablet with head movements and facial expressions via a webcam. Users can for example raise their eyebrows to click and drag or open their mouth to move the cursor.
“We collaborated with Incluzza to learn how Project Gameface can be expanded to educational, work, and other settings, like being able to type messages to family or searching for new jobs,” said Avneet Singh, product manager, Google Partner Innovation, at an international press briefing and demo on May 14 on the sidelines of Google I/O in Mountain View, California.
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Vinaya Chinnappa, chief executive of Enable India Solutions, of which Incluzza is a part, told ET, “We work with persons with disabilities to prepare them for livelihoods and with companies to make workplaces an inclusive ecosystem be it in hiring, serving customers with disabilities, making their premises
