Tobii Tobii Eye Tracker 5 - Head & Eye Tracking Gaming Peripheral for PC

I discovered Tobii on the first Alienware laptops they were installed on. Loved it from the moment it worked, thanks but goodbye Track IR goofy hat-headed easily sunlight-smitten wandering tracker.Earl on Tobii usually worked and months of satisfying semi-hovering the Huey in DCS were ahead but Lockheed’s Prepar3d was never certain with any add-ons and Windows updates would stop it sometimes so I emailed or called tech support prepared to wait a day or two. They were on the solution minutes later and it was clear they’d figure it out. They are the most knowledgeable, effective and undefeated tech support I’ve had the pleasure of working with on anything related to computers. 100% success rate even early on if it took half an hour for them to check Prepar3D (yes they knew it and taught us which files had to be where) review the tracker logs. And I learned the technology is being used to enable those with MS and other accessibility needs to control their computers, for speech and even if I remember correctly used remotely or locally for robotic surgery.Using it on a new MSI desktop now with our first RTX 4090 GPU’s and it just works flawlessly driving my 460 HP Kenworth through LA or cruise in a Cessna 404 Titan high above the stunning Rockies. Very immersive and realistic as it is rock solid and effortless to read gauges or glass cockpits (love just leaning forward to see closer) yet instantly tracks at my realtime head turning or gaze rate and customizable any response ratio in as far as I want to customize the software. Which I rarely ever had to do or do now. Reliable and as easy as sticking the adapter with thin magnetic strip on to attach under the curved 38” ultrawide LG monitor - or our 30”Dell Ultra Sharp, ASUS monitors. Tracking has zero issues with curved monitors and is easily recalibrated if I want to by looking at fixed dots on the screen for a few seconds. Haven’t had to do it again once it’s calibrated.TipsProbably just my OCD but the strips of heavy duty plastic Velcro have a distracting whitish glue & rough look on the sides of the strips - easily solved with a black Sharpie going around the sides of the strips a few times before sticking on and never see them now.Also add a small stick-on cable clip under or on the back of the monitor to secure the cable coming out of the tracker going to your USB port. If you move your monitor position this will help the mount keep then tracking bar stable and centered.Hope you enjoy it as much as we have. Thanks Tobii for years of outstanding service and products!

I'm an older gamer and bought Tobii specifically for use in Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Ghost Recon Wildlands.If you can afford it and want a more immersive experience in these games, I do recommend it. HOWEVER... let me give you my take on what really matters when Tobii is used in these games and what is somewhat a novelty. I'll discuss both types.The core feature - the single most important and immersion enhancing feature - is what the combination of what head and eye tracking does. It smoothly scrolls the screen depending on where you are looking. In "real life", you may turn your head or your eyes, or both. If you turn your head (say right) and then look even more right with your eyes, you are probably wanting to see the most you can peripherally.That's the heart of what Tobii does. It knows and interprets the COMBINATION of head and eye movement and knows when it needs to accelerate and exaggerate the screen scrolling. Just using an "Old School" head tracker can not do this. You can still scroll the screen with a head tracker like TrackIR, but you can duplicate the intelligent addition of eye tracking.Bottom line is that as your head and eyes work together, the flat screen world in front of you makes an honest attempt to simulate the real world.Please note: Breakpoint and Wildlands have built-in Tobii support. But you will have to fiddle with eye and head tracking sliders to get it to work best for you. Just FYI.As far as the other features from Tobii in these games, most of them in my opinion are more or less "novelty" items (with one exception listed below). They may suit you. For example, in Wildlands, you can set it up so that if you look at where you normally have the mini-map, the map appears while you are looking at it. Also you can use your eyes to select an item (e.g., grenade) off the weapon wheel. These and several other available features, to me, are cute but not worth the effort to integrate into my established game play routine.There is one feature (in addition to screen scolling) that I have found makes on-going sense. And that is automatically swinging your weapon to somewhere near where your eyes are looking by just clicking on the right mouse button. This works well in a 3rd person game. In real life, for example, if you are outside and scanning for baddies, if you see any, you're gonna keep your eyes on them while you swing the weapon around towards them. The "Aim at Gaze" feature simulates this. Again, works best in a 3rd person game.(IN a 1st person game, where you have a scope, and you apply this, it can be visually disorientating. I use iron sights more because of this.Speaking of 1st person, I generally run Breakpoint and Wildlands each with their First Person mods.So here's my conclusion for you players out there. For Breakpoint and Wildlands, it does enhance immersion. It feels more real. And maybe some of the novelty settings might please you. Overall, the game is more enjoyable. Whether it is $300 more enjoyable depends on your situation.Note that Tobii works on many games. See their website for the list of supported games.Hope this helps!

It works really well. If you're really into a game that supports it then it could be a good value. However, it's a very expensive accessory. You can get much cheaper head and eye tracking software that uses a webcam instead. The software and webcam solution works about 80-90% as well. Probably the same in a well lit room. That makes the tobii a really hard sell.However, the nice thing is that it mounts to your monitor nicely and the software and setup is real easy. So I would say it's more convenient to use the tobii. It is a luxury item in a sense. I'm definitely happy with it. The cost is why I'm not giving it a 5 star rating.