Facebook 'Acqu-Hires' Eye Tracking Firm GazeHawk
Facebook's run of acquiring tech firms' intellectual property and hiring their management teams in the run-up to going public continues with eye-tracking company GazeHawk.
Facebook’s run of acquiring tech firms’ intellectual property and hiring their management teams in the run-up to going public continues with eye-tracking company GazeHawk.
Unlike competitors in the eye-tracking sector, GazeHawk’s technology does not require separate hardware, working via users’ webcams.
The GazeHawk product and technology will remain independent from Facebook, and its management team will join the social network.
Co-Founders Brian Krausz and Joe Gershenson wrote in a post on the GazeHawk homepage:
When we founded GazeHawk, we chose to attack a truly difficult computer vision challenge.
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