What is the relation of Camera Mouse 2011 with the commercial Camera Mouse program that used to be available?
There have been several incarnations of Camera Mouse. The first was developed at our lab in Boston College and was distributed for free on a limited basis. Boston College then awarded the exclusive license to the Camera Mouse technology to Camera Mouse, Inc., a start-up company out of the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas, Austin. The company developed the version of Camera Mouse that they sold commercially. When the company collapsed the license was revoked by Boston College. Camera Mouse 2007 was developed from scratch. Camera Mouse 2008 is an extension of Camera Mouse 2007 that works with a much wider variety of webcams. Camera Mouse 2009 and 2010 and 2011 are improved versions in a much smaller download that work with computers with multiple video sources, such as television tuners. We believe Camera Mouse can help folks so we are making it available for free over the web.
