Support for Tobii Eyetrack

[Mervy79]

6DOF please, it worked with facetracknoir , i removed it and now just have up/down left/right no side or forward backward

[skysthelimit707]

@Geealf

Trackir
Pros:

• most common tracking product, easily supported
• can read stuff and move your eyes while tracking stays perfectly still!
• can get finicky to setup, but once it’s done, it’s done.

Cons:

• absurdly expensive for such old and simple tech
• tends to be fragile, there’s a ton of head mount variants due to this
• you need to have stuff mounted on your head (cap, usually)
• at this point it’s so old it’s getting hard to find (here in Italy it’s not on Amazon anymore)

I have another 2 more Cons for TrackIR:

• UV blockout blinds required on all doors and windows(I had these installed)
• it doesn’t work well with glasses. Every few seconds the view would change from inside the cockpit to outside of the cockpit like if I had stood up and then back inside the cockpit.

Which brings me to 2 more Pros for Tobii:

• No UV blockout required
• Works with glasses

[Geealf]

Tobii doesn’t work well with glasses. Also TrackIR doesn’t track your eyes so why glasses would be a problem? Reflection from sensors?

[donka73]

Tobii doesn’t work well with some glasses it seems. It works flawlessly with me and I can track my eye glances perfectly in cockpit. The option to disable eye tracking however would resolve this for those that have that issue.

[skysthelimit707]

From the article I linked to:

Glasses, lenses and eye surgery

Glasses, lenses and eye surgery

There are certain types of glasses that could affect the accuracy and the precision of the gaze estimation.

• Bifocal, trifocal…, progressive

There are also certain types of glass characteristics that could affect the NIR light from reaching your eyes.

• NIR blocking coatings will obstruct the eye tracker from detecting your eyes.
• NIR blocking glass material will obstruct the eye tracker from detecting your eyes.

I can report that the Tobii Eye Tracker 5 works flawlessly with my glasses.

[skysthelimit707]

@Geealf

not all games have 6DOF it needs to be programmed in (see, MSFS still doesn’t, but DCS finally does! Works great, too.)

You can buy FaceTrackNoIR to get 6DOF. It might still be listed as a con as you need to buy it but at €3.45EUR you’re not going to break the bank.

[Geealf]

I don’t add extra software and clunkiness on flight sims, they’re already crash-y and slow enough. DCS has native 6DOF support, I’ll just wait.

[ZILLNIAZI17]

That support is already there. Go into the settings and you will find it. I have it on my Alienware but I turn it off for this simulator only.

[Jummivana]

Closing this topic as implemented. However, the dev team is currently working with Tobii Eyetrack to include helpful settings/configurations for a future update!