EyeX for webb?

[André Stadelmann]

Hey!

Can you use the EyeX for websites? I know that they got a chrome plugin so cab I use that for a website?

[Robert [Tobii]]

Yes, technically you can, but it is not so easy at the moment. The Chrome plugin uses an internal protocol to communicate with the EyeX Engine. We are working on a public API for web/JavaScript, but I cannot say when it will be released. There are some other cool thing that have higher priority at the moment. Bear with us!

[John]

Now I’m curious. What could possibly be cooler than using eye tracking in web apps?!

[Robert [Tobii]]

You’ll see!

[John]

Eye tracking for the Oculus Rift.

[André Stadelmann]

Hahaha! John you made my day!

[dotch]

Any news on this?
I really need the Javascript API.
Can you give a rough estimation on when to expect it?
(for my personal case it would be enough to know if it will be released within the next 3 months or not)

[Robert [Tobii]]

Hi,

The status of the EyeX SDK for JavaScript/Web is still work-in-progress. I really hope it can be released within the next 3 months, but cannot promise anything.

To help us to prioritize the right solution, it would be great to know your use case. For example: do you need to create something that works in a regular web browser, or are you using some sort of glue framework like Chromium Extension Framework or Awesomium?

[André Stadelmann]

I want JS for using hover and visual feedback on webpages.

[Jaideep Sundaram]

Hello,

Could someone please provide a pointer to the document that describes this soon-to-be-released JavaScript API?

What types of “events” will be supported?

I’d be most interested in the mouse equivalents of:
1. hover (stare-at)
2. mouseover (glance-at)
3. mouseleave (glance-away)
4. click (blink)
5. double-click (double-blink, maybe…)
6. etc.

Thank you in advance,
J

[Nexii Malthus]

Don’t use a plugin! You would be obsolete from step one.

To open up to the web you need to use modern standards.

Take a lession from the Leap Motion JS api: WebSockets.
https://github.com/leapmotion/leapjs/tree/master/lib
You don’t need to use their code, but at least inspect and learn from it.

Basically the drivers open up a websocket as a transport layer and the JS framework then connects to this.

[Sean Doyle]

Just noticed this thread. I agree with Nexii- the way that the LeapMotion API works is ideal. It’s great that it works on Mac and PC; it’s great that I can integrate into any browser or Node.js process. Please do this :-).

[Bruno Burke]

Accessing the EyeX via WebSockets would be great. Almost every language has some sort of library to send web-requests and convert JSON Data, so this will be a solution for multiple Programming Languages!
Maybe someone who reads this is able to merge the MinimalGazeDataStream example project with a micro Webserver and publish it as open source?

[Mostafa]

I was able to stream gaze data to javascript via Node and C#/Edge.js https://warm-dawn-72382.herokuapp.com/note/how-to-stream-gaze-data-from-tobii-eyex-to-javascript-via-node

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