Vision Meets Gaming: Could Smart Glasses Detect Smurfing Behavior in Esports?
Smurfing, where skilled players create low-level accounts to dominate less experienced opponents, disrupts fair play in competitive online games like League of Legends. This practice, often achieved when players buy LoL accounts to start fresh, frustrates newcomers, skews matchmaking, and undermines game integrity. While developers use algorithms to detect smurfing, a new approach—smart glasses with eye-tracking—could offer a novel solution by analyzing players’ visual behaviors.
The Power of Smart Glasses
Smart glasses, already used in fields like healthcare and sports training, are gaining traction in gaming for augmented reality glasses in gaming and immersive experiences. Equipped with precise eye-tracking, these devices monitor micro-movements, gaze direction, and reaction times. For example, Tobii’s eye-tracking technology, used in some VR headsets, can detect rapid saccades to specific screen regions, like a mini-map or enemy spawn points. Smurfs, trying to mask [….]
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