Hello,
I am starting a project that will require an eye tracking device. I've seen eye tracking hardware + software solutions that are $10,000+ so I am hoping to find one that is significantly less than that. I am not sure which one to buy so I was wondering if I could have some suggestions.
Here are some specifications/requirements we have:
Hi! Not sure whether this meets all the requirements you listed, but as a tip, we have recently got a very affordable and portable gear to our lab that enables ET as well as pupillometry: https://pupil-labs.com/products/core (unfortunately, I have not tested it yet due to pandemics). It is going to take some effort to integrate the gear with PsychoPy, which we use for our behavioral experiments, but otherwise it looks very neat. Best, M.
I am not sure about the cost but i think the most popular eye tracker is Tobii Eye tracking glasses and its portable device.
I think you don't need to buy it, as there are some of companies can loan it to you.... try to find some of them on the internet.
A particular VR headset with eye-tracker integrated (HTC Vive Pro Eye) costs around £1,500. Provided you already own a VR capable laptop, then the cost is confined to that and of course the software solution which varies dramatically. Your Uni connections to Informatics-related faculties will prove invaluable, you could even collab and have a rudimentary (yet sufficient) eye tracking analysis script. However, you'll be using a whole different medium than what you originally planned (monitor vs immersive VR) but I think it was worth the suggestion, as owning and learning how to use such a tool (VR with integrated eye-tracking) is futureproof and can refine and expand your eye-tracking research.
Definitely, it depends on the task. Just remember that cheap is not always suitable to solve the problem. See first specs Sampling rate and latency. Otherwise it might be not suitable at all.
I would recommend to reach out to Tobii and discuss your requirements. We are always happy to help.
Pupil labs. Used it for my PhD. Fantastic piece of equipment and had a good community of software developers you can tap into.
Since you need a portable eye tracker, I will suggest pupil labs. I have used it for one of my projects.
Hello, I'm just wondering. The researchers suggesting PupilLabs seem to focus a lot on the very first point.
But what's your experience with the other requierenents?
Ideally something that is standalone, like attached to the bottom of a computer monitor.
For automatic data aggregation on stimuli which are shown on a screen, remote eyetrackers outperform glasses based systems in every case.
The scenarios will not be short - they will be 15 to 30 minutes long.
For 30 minute recordings I would always suggest a system which allows for headmovement and compensates for drift. If it's a Glasses based system it's imperative to have slippage compensation that works.
The eye tracker needs to have a decent level of accuracy but it does not need to be the best.
I would recommend to discuss these requirements with Tobii Pro because Tobii has products which will comply with all the requirements and assure the success of your research.
I think the best option for you would be to rent desktop-mounted eye trackers. Especially if you only want to do a few studies. But if you plan for the long run of using eye trackers, I suggest thinking of investing money in good quality hardware. If you have programming skills, you may think of developing the experimental software as well as the analysis to save the software expenses.
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