#gaze tracking

[sentivium]

The Future of Interaction is HERE! EyeBliss Gaze Tracking at CES 2025

[truthbureau]

Man With Lazy Eye Sues Streaming Service Over Gaze Tracking Ads

New Orleans, LA – A New Orleans man with amblyopia, also known as a lazy eye, has filed a lawsuit against popular streaming service StreamFlix, alleging that the company’s gaze tracking advertisement technology has prevented him from being able to watch shows and movies he has paid to access. Jack Ridger, 42, claims that StreamFlix’s patented EyeTrac ad advancement system cannot properly detect…

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[yourvirtualgame]

Looking Through Your User's Eyes With Virtual Reality Gaze Tracking

VR analytics technology is allowing companies to design and fine-tune their products based on accurately tracking what captures user attention – and what doesn’t.

[awesomeassistivetechnology]

Low cost eye tracking enters the world!

Within the past year, multiple companies have released eyetrackers costing hundreds, instead of (tens of) thousands, of dollars. These new devices are aimed at gaming and multimedia applications, but they are still amazingly useful as assistive technology. The two main competitors at this point seem to be Eye Tribe and Tobii EyeX.

I purchased an EyeX unit this March, and it has significantly expanded what I can do with my computer. I will write later about the specifics of my setup, but I want to today just survey some of the development happening on the EyeX and other low-cost eye tracking devices (much software works across multiple devices) which is relevant to disability. (There is also significant gaming development on the platform, but it is largely using multiple input devices and would not be accessible to many physically disabled people. Plus,Tobii will tell you all about that.)

To be clear, I’m saying that these devices have great accessibility potential, not that they are currently ready made computer access solutions. At present, using these devices as an accessibility tool requires at least moderate technical skills.

Okay, without further ado, here are some software projects I find interesting:

OptiKey is an on-screen keyboard and mouse emulator specifically designed for eye tracking input. Free and open source. Windows only.

Project Iris uses eye tracking to control the mouse. It also allows you to define active screen regions and triggers actions when you look at them. Many potential uses for accessible gaming. Paid. Windows only.

Gaze Speaker is a self contained environment for speech generation by eye movements. Also includes other tools like an email client, a simple web browser, and a file browser, all designed to be accessed by eye alone. Free and open source.

FreePIE lets you write Python scripts that take input from many, many different devices, including the EyeX. You can use that input to trigger just about any action you can imagine, provided you can figure out how to write the code. Probably best for geeks, but extremely powerful for meeting custom needs. Free and open source.

[szydej]

EyeTracking using only ordinary webcam.

GazeBoard text-entry system that has a restricted on-screen keyboard with ambiguous layout for severely disabled people. The main reason for using such a keyboard layout is that it enables the use of gaze tracking systems with a low spatial resolution (e.g., a web-camera based gaze tracker). The goal of the GazeBoard project is to develop a gaze-based AAC system that supports facilitates fast text entry, as the primary AAC tool for users

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gazeboard/

[mountroseminnesota]

notice the difference when following the moving dot with your eyes vs. staring at the center cross

[barkleymoonshot-blog]

Tobii Gaze Tracker Experiments

We got our hands on a Tobii Gaze Tracker and wanted to take it for a spin to see what it could do. I found a really great Java binding for their C++ SDK. That means I could use it to control Processing sketches.

To start off, I created two sketches. The first one you'll see in this video is just a grid of "ice cubes" that the viewer can melt away just by staring at them. The second is an adaptation of a particle engine drawing program I had created earlier. All the drawing particles in the sketch are attracted to the point on the screen that I'm looking at.

My first impression? The tracking is pretty darn good but incredibly shaky. That makes sense since the device is translating incredibly small movements into a much larger context. With my very first attempt, I just drew a black dot on the screen where the Tobii had determined I was looking. That dot looked like an over-caffeinated ant, jittering around all over the place. Also, your eyes are much better at quick motions rather than slow, controlled movements. So controlling something on screen with your eyeballs is quite a mindtrip.

-chris

[crunchwear]

Motorola Patents Gaze Tracking Arm Bands

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Motorola Patents Gaze Tracking Arm Bands

Google seems to be one of the companies that is at the forefront of the wearable technology movement, and it’s child companies are no exception to that. Recently we introduced you to the new pay per gaze advertising system that could potentially change the way that digital advertising...