Dev builds camera-only head-controlled mouse in Rust: blink to click, no extra hardware

4310sy · x · 2026-11-14

• Japanese developer 0x7c0x80386 released eye-tracking-mouse, a free Windows tool that lets people with limited hand mobility control the cursor with head movements and left-click by closing both eyes for 0.4 seconds.
• It runs on a laptop's built-in camera with no special hardware; camera footage is neither stored nor transmitted.
• Under the hood: MediaPipe Face Mesh V2 detects 478 facial landmarks (running on native Windows ML), mapping head pose to cursor motion; written in native Rust on Win32 as a single executable, Apache-2.0 licensed and open source.
• Currently experimental: cursor movement and left-click only; right-click, drag and scrolling are not yet supported. The author invites feedback from disabled users and assistive-tech workers to adapt to varying neck range and blink comfort.

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