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Inexpensive open source "eye-tracking"

1 points by S3nz0r 3y ago

S3nz0r 3y ago
Hey all, I am new here but have recently become passionate about looking into the issues of accessibility and eye-driven interfaces. Most OS's allow you to use eye-tracking, but require additional expensive hardware. It is fine to some extent: the hardware is precise with all necessary sensors. But on the other hand, all consumer electronics devices (or most of them) already have built-in cameras! I know that there are partially similar projects, but most of them focus on scientific and market research eye-tracking. I think that we should strive to bring more eye-driven interfaces to our laptops/phones/info-kiosks, especially after what vision pro and meta quest 3 presented. Differentiating our input interfaces increases accessibility for digital spaces and limits the number of people who may not be able to use their own devices to a full extent; additionally, it gives very natural interfaces for rest. Hence, after 4 months of hacking and putting bits and pieces together, I have designed a working solution. It is not perfect yet, but you can see demos here: https://eyegestures.com/game https://eyegestures.com/game https://eyegestures.com/cinema https://eyegestures.com/cinema https://eyegestures.com/ https://eyegestures.com/ It may take some patience yet to adjust yourself to the interface, but I am super happy to get feedback. The main rule is that it is an eye-movement-driven cursor, not strictly a gaze tracker. Tracker can be deployed to any website/webapp via our API, or you can use a desktop app to deploy it for OS (that requires a bit more integration from my side, but as the one lone engineer, it is a simple issue of limited time and resources). Additionally, there is a main link to our polar.sh site but if you want to contact me directly: piotr.walas@eyegestures.com or contact@eyegestures.com Link to github: https://github.com/NativeSensors/EyeGestures https://github.com/NativeSensors/EyeGestures
JPLeRouzic 3y ago
Hi Piotr, Thanks, we need eye-trackers for people who mostly lost access to their bodies. Yet I tried your site and it didn't work for me (or I didn't understand the instructions)

1 points by S3nz0r 3y ago

Hey all, I am new here but have recently become passionate about looking into the issues of accessibility and eye-driven interfaces. Most OS's allow you to use eye-tracking, but require additional expensive hardware. It is fine to some extent: the hardware is precise with all necessary sensors. But on the other hand, all consumer electronics devices (or most of them) already have built-in cameras! I know that there are partially similar projects, but most of them focus on scientific and market research eye-tracking. I think that we should strive to bring more eye-driven interfaces to our laptops/phones/info-kiosks, especially after what vision pro and meta quest 3 presented. Differentiating our input interfaces increases accessibility for digital spaces and limits the number of people who may not be able to use their own devices to a full extent; additionally, it gives very natural interfaces for rest. Hence, after 4 months of hacking and putting bits and pieces together, I have designed a working solution. It is not perfect yet, but you can see demos here: https://eyegestures.com/game https://eyegestures.com/game https://eyegestures.com/cinema https://eyegestures.com/cinema https://eyegestures.com/ https://eyegestures.com/ It may take some patience yet to adjust yourself to the interface, but I am super happy to get feedback. The main rule is that it is an eye-movement-driven cursor, not strictly a gaze tracker. Tracker can be deployed to any website/webapp via our API, or you can use a desktop app to deploy it for OS (that requires a bit more integration from my side, but as the one lone engineer, it is a simple issue of limited time and resources). Additionally, there is a main link to our polar.sh site but if you want to contact me directly: piotr.walas@eyegestures.com or contact@eyegestures.com Link to github: https://github.com/NativeSensors/EyeGestures https://github.com/NativeSensors/EyeGestures

JPLeRouzic 3y ago

Hi Piotr, Thanks, we need eye-trackers for people who mostly lost access to their bodies. Yet I tried your site and it didn't work for me (or I didn't understand the instructions)