If things are not working as you expected, please check out the following small troubleshooting guides.

“Tobii Unity SDK only supports building for Standalone build targets”

If you get the error message:

“Tobii Unity SDK only supports building for Standalone build targets. Eye-gaze data is only available on the Windows platform. Change platform in build settings to make the Eye Tracking features work.”

Check your build settings and make sure Platform is set to “PC, Mac & Linux Standalone”. See also: Set Windows as Target Platform

The Tobii Unity SDK only provides data on Windows 10/8.1/7, and only builds without errors for standalone platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux).

“I get invalid data”

Getting invalid eye-gaze data is expected in the following situations:

  • during game startup,
  • at the first call for a value (for example first call to TobiiAPI.GetGazePoint()),
  • for a few frames following the first call to a value function,
  • during the game shutdown,
  • on unsupported platforms (like Mac and Linux)
  • when the Tobii Unity SDK framework is not getting any data from the eye tracker:
    • when the eye tracker is not connected
    • when the user has disabled eye tracking in the Tobii EyeTracking settings
    • when you are not looking at the screen
    • when your eyes are outside the so-called track-box in front of the eye tracker (try moving your head closer/further away, vertically or horizontally until the eye tracker can track your eyes)

You have to take these expected cases of invalid gaze data into account in your game implementation.

“My Gaze Aware objects are not reacting to eye-gaze”

First of all, the Gaze Aware component only works with 3D game objects with a UnityEngine.Collider. If you have attached the component to a UI element on a Canvas, it will not work. If you have attached the Gaze Aware component to a 3D game object that has a Collider but it doesn’t work, keep on reading.

The gaze focus (G2OM) algorithms only work when the Tobii Eye Tracking Framework has access to valid Gaze Point data. See the previous section for situations when the Gaze Aware objects are not expected to react to eye-gaze (because there is no valid Gaze Point data available).

 

Make sure that the Tobii Initializer prefab is added to the scene.

Verify that the proper layers for your game are selected in the Layers property multi-selection dropdown. Only the selected layers will be considered in the gaze focus (G2OM) algorithms that calculate which Gaze Aware game object the user is looking at.

“The gaze points are offset in Unity Editor”

The first thing to check is the game view window scaling. This SDK can only map gaze points correctly if the viewport covers the entire area of the game view window. Please adjust the scaling accordingly. This problem won’t affect the standalone builds.

If the gaze points are offset to the upper-left when running the game in the Unity Editor, and the offset increases the closer to the lower-right corner of your screen you are looking at, then you probably have a DPI problem. On Windows 10 this offset problem is more common since the screen DPI is automatically set to higher values for high-resolution monitors. Here are possible workarounds:

  • Set the DPI scale for your monitor manually to a value of 125% or lower, or
  • Build a standalone build and test the eye-tracking related features there, or
  • Locate Unity.exe in File Explorer – a common place is C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\<version>\Editor. Right-click the exe and open Properties. On the Compatibility tab, Settings section, check the option Disable display scaling on high DPI settings. Note that this will cause the Unity Editor to be rendered at 100% size also on high-resolution screens, resulting in smaller fonts and button sizes than you might want.

None of the above items describes the issue I have

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