Is Tobii eye tracking 4C worth it?

[BiuBiuBiu]

acknowledged this thing from Far cry 5 store page.

I'm wearing glasses

and play flightsim (DCS world etc.) and ARMA 3 which is supportted

[⎛⎝Duckers McQuack⎠⎞]

I'm tempted to buy it myself. But not sure whether to get the one with head tracking or the old one as i already have a head tracker that uses a ps3 cam

[Aliberto (NL)]

Hi i have an Dell Alienware 17 R4 laptop with Tobii Eyetracking build in. Down under the screen i see 2 red lights blinking. I find it annoying. It flicker a lot.
Beside that, if the tracker is on but the game does not support it, you should expect that it does not work. Basicly that is true. But in some games i had weird movements like unwanted and uncontrolled look up or down continuesly. I could not relate it in the beginning what caused this issue. But i had to disable the whole device to stop those unwanted movements.

In Windows envirement it works oke, but not great. If you walk away from pc, it will hibernate your pc/ sleepmode. If you look to your Alienware logo the pc turns on. But sometimes the distance is not correct/ light circumstances or the eyetracker cannot locate your eyes correctly, result: you are busy for 1 minute to get your pc on. Turn pc on with hardware button is still faster,

If you look in Windows to the trashbin en shortly move your mouse, you are already on position where you wanted to be.

I tried also some games in the past, but i can not get used to it. In Assassins Creed Syndicate i got unwanted movements with ingame camera view. For example when i look for like 1 second to the left side of the screen to see wat was happening there, i had no real control, camera went everywere except what i wanted to see.

I decided personally to disable the eyetracker and try to stick with the old fashioned mouse. I feel like that i have more control. But maybe i am not the group/person where Tobii tries to aim on. Or i do not want to change my old behavior because a mouse feels for me so comfortable.

With a mouse you see directly where the pointer goes to. you can enable Gaze pointer from Tobii to see a circle moving in your screen, so you are aware to see where you look at that moment. But i got irritated to see all time a circle moving all over my screen.

The idea sounds cool that your eyes are faster than the mouse. But i feel like that Tobii eyetracking is more a gimmick than an musthave.

Glasses are supported. You can make multiple user profiles, after calibration.

[BiuBiuBiu]

Thank you Aliberto, that exactly what I want to know. It seems the gaming world is not ready to embrace the eye tracker tech yet. I would prefer to waiit and see.

[Aliberto (NL)]

Originally posted by BiuBiuBiu:

Thank you Aliberto, that exactly what I want to know. It seems the gaming world is not ready to embrace the eye tracker tech yet. I would prefer to waiit and see.

The problem is that marketing from companies let you believe that it is a musthave. I did buy my laptop for the GTX1080 at that time and it was cheapest @Dell. So i did not buy specially Tobii eyetracker in combination with Dell and other stuff. For me it was just there build in.

Tobii make you crazy that you get Tripple A game titles with their tracker, so it feels more confident for the customer. But if you think further, the eyetracker must also be sold. It is a bit of chicken or egg story. How do you get things on the market.

[TJG冬瓜]

Originally posted by Aliberto (NL):

Beside that, if the tracker is on but the game does not support it, you should expect that it does not work. Basicly that is true. But in some games i had weird movements like unwanted and uncontrolled look up or down continuesly. I could not relate it in the beginning what caused this issue. But i had to disable the whole device to stop those unwanted movements.
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It should be a tobii feature called "warp on mouse move" causing this issue. it doesn't work with first person view games, turn it off in tobii setting should solve it. it's an desktop feature to reduce movement of mouse.