5)“Eye fatigue comes in pretty quickly” - we don’t want you to do anything differently, but play as naturally as possible since the eye tracker is monitoring your eye movements. So there is really NO NEED to stay perfectly still, blink or be unnaturally close to the screen.
6)"Use gaze to control the camera pivot -- That sounds incredibly annoying.” - We understand the doubts but we are pretty confident that you might have a different opinion after trying it out! A gamespot reporter did the same:http://l.gamespot.com/1Mm7rar
7)“Making the foreground in sharper focus than background and peripheral objects. Why is this necessary?” - We want allow your normal human vision to exist within the game based on your natural focus to allow for real depth instead of a flat screen. @teckromancr @blakecaldwell and @tdaltonc got it right!
8)"Is it sad that all I see this turning into is REALLY annoying ads in streaming apps?"/"I do not look forward to advertisements using this technology.” - We have no intentions of making ads from eye tracking! We also have SDK agreements based on not allowing infringement of privacy. Its been 15 years in eye tracking for Tobii so personal integrity is something we take extremely seriously.
So if any of you want to try out the tracker, all you have to do is tweet "let me try @tobiieyex via #hackernews!” and we will DM you for your details. The first 10 individuals to tweet it within 48 hours will get our latest Tobii EyeX shipped right to you, free of charge. All we want is for you to really play/test it out for yourself. We have not done this with any other community before but hacker news is pretty special to us!
6)"Use gaze to control the camera pivot -- That sounds incredibly annoying.” - We understand the doubts but we are pretty confident that you might have a different opinion after trying it out! A gamespot reporter did the same:http://l.gamespot.com/1Mm7rar
7)“Making the foreground in sharper focus than background and peripheral objects. Why is this necessary?” - We want allow your normal human vision to exist within the game based on your natural focus to allow for real depth instead of a flat screen. @teckromancr @blakecaldwell and @tdaltonc got it right!
8)"Is it sad that all I see this turning into is REALLY annoying ads in streaming apps?"/"I do not look forward to advertisements using this technology.” - We have no intentions of making ads from eye tracking! We also have SDK agreements based on not allowing infringement of privacy. Its been 15 years in eye tracking for Tobii so personal integrity is something we take extremely seriously.
So if any of you want to try out the tracker, all you have to do is tweet "let me try @tobiieyex via #hackernews!” and we will DM you for your details. The first 10 individuals to tweet it within 48 hours will get our latest Tobii EyeX shipped right to you, free of charge. All we want is for you to really play/test it out for yourself. We have not done this with any other community before but hacker news is pretty special to us!