We are thrilled to shine a light on Tobii, most known in the flight simulation community for the Tobii Eye Tracker 5. If you attended the past two FlightSimExpos (Houston or Las Vegas), you may have had the chance to try it out at our booth!
Tobii Eye Tracker 5 translates your eye and head movements, allowing for complete immersion in Microsoft Flight Simulator so you can look around the cockpit, at your instruments, or out the window to admire the view or assess your position in the traffic pattern.
We know flight simmers have a wide range of cockpit setups, so here is what is most important to know about the Tobii Eye Tracker 5:
- It works in all light conditions! Where you are in a pitch black home cockpit or out in bright daylight, the eye tracker will work flawlessly.
- For head tracking, there is no screen size limit. For eye tracking, it can accurately track your eye movements on up to 30” screens.
- The eye tracker works for those who wear any type of glasses and can track both your head and eye moments.
- Their flex mount is designed to adapt to the majority of flat or curved screens.
- You don’t attach it to your headset or hat! There are no wearables needed.
- You can enable/disable the eye tracking and head tracking independently of one another for a customized experience
Your head position in real-life translates directly to how you occupy the pilot seat and look around your cockpit, in full six-degrees-of-freedom (6DOF). Lean forward, look up, look sideways.
“It’s accurate. Once you set it up and calibrate it, you’ll honestly wonder how you could ever cope without it.” Squirrel
Scanning your instruments, landing, sightseeing, and even plane safaris will feel much more intuitive and immersive, as Extended View gives you full vision in and around your aircraft. Extended View is kind of like a mouse-look, just without the mouse. Your natural head and eye movements direct the in-sim camera, which is no longer locked to only looking forward like the player’s aircraft.
Tobii Eye Tracker 5 is the perfect complement to a HOTAS. setup, as it enables pilots to keep their hands on the control systems while also providing extended view for the in-sim camera. Spatial awareness is redefined, landing or taking off feels more natural than ever, and maneuvering in the air has a whole other meaning when immersion is pushed to its limits.
If you are interested in discussing the Tobii Eyetacker 5 with fellow simmers, feel free to join our community on our Official Forums! We have tag #tobii to easily find and contribute to topics.