Easy, Affordable Eye Tracking!

The S2 Eye Tracker is portable, handles large data sets,
and provides a high degree of accuracy for your research needs.
 

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Mirametrix provides three products together for eye tracking: S2 Eye Tracker, Viewer eye tracking software and an API. The products are offered together in one affordable eye tracking package.

The S2 Eye Tracker is a portable hardware device that sits just below the computer screen. It calibrates almost instantly and holds calibration extremely well, allowing it to work consistently across subjects. It runs on most Windows computers, and can be used at a variety of locations, both in and out of the lab.

The Eye Tracking Viewer software is a simple-to-use program for recording an eye tracking session. The eye tracking software works in the background and creates a video of the screen, overlaid with red dots showing exactly where the user is looking at that moment in time.

The Eye Tracker API provides a simple way to interface with the S2 Eye Tracker. The S2 Eye Tracker API requires no software download whatsoever.

Key S2 Eye Tracker Benefits

• Portability: You can easily transport the lightweight and compact eye tracker equipment.
• Extensibility: Using the API, you can integrate eye tracking with any software or device that has the necessary accessibility. Our customers have used the S2 Eye Tracker with a host of software applications including MATLAB, etc. and etc.
• Painless Calibration: You don’t want to be fiddling with the eye tracker system for every new subject. Steady, simple calibration that holds consistently and works quickly is critical.
• Accuracy: You can expect accuracy in the 0.5-1 degree range, ideal for a wide range of research and practical uses.
• Flexible: The eye tracker is flexible under a number of different conditions: wearing eye glasses, head tilting, excessive blinking, and head shaking. The eye tracker is also very quick to reacquire a test subject’s eyes when they move out of view.
• Unobtrusive: Position the Eye Tracker just below the monitor and subjects forget it’s there very quickly. Users can move and act naturally, distraction-free.
• Lots of Data: You can record and store huge data sets, which makes it possible to record long eye tracker sessions, even on video.

The S2 Eye Tracker equipment is ease to use and setup, making it possible to benefit from eye tracking in any number of studies, without any training required.

Applications

How to Use Eye Tracking?
Eye tracking can be used in a variety of different applications. The S2 Eye Tracker from Mirametrix is specialised for a number of key industries and purposes.

Academic Research - There’s an increasing interest in eye tracking and how it can impact academic and scientific research in a number of fields including psychology, human-computer interaction, and more.

Market Research - As consumers interact more and more with digital devices, and consume more content through video, television and the web, companies need to better understand this interaction and consumption. The opportunities for optimisation are significant.

Software Usability - Software developers can learn a great deal about how easy their software is to use and how people use it through the implementation of basic eye tracking.

Education - Eye trackers can be very useful in classroom environments for teaching high school, undergraduate and graduate students about subjects including psychology, perception, human behavior and more.

Game design - Games are getting faster and more complex, and users are getting more demanding. A game's playability is critical to its success, and eye tracking can help assess playability and overall game quality.

S2 Eye Tracker

Accurate, Affordable and Portable Eye Tracking System

The S2 Eye Tracker is capable of determining where someone is looking on a computer screen in real-time.

The S2 Eye Tracker is affordable and academic discounts are offered. This includes the eye tracker hardware, software and API. Mirametrix also provides a 1-year hardware warranty.

You’ll get an eye tracker system that is:

Accurate: Advanced computer algorithms track both eyes, offering a point-of-gaze measurement that is accurate within a 0.5 to 1 degree range.

Simple to Use: Setting up the S2 Eye Tracker takes less than a minute, the bundled software is intuitive, and working with the S2's API is quick and easy.

Affordable: The S2 Eye Tracker is priced ($5,000) so that multiple computers may be outfitted with eye trackers at a low cost. This allows for faster team software development and faster test subject throughput. Academic and volume discounts are available.

Flexible: The eye tracker is flexible under a number of different conditions: wearing eye glasses, head tilting, excessive blinking, and head shaking. The eye tracker is also very quick to reacquire a test subject’s eyes when they move out of view.

Portable: The S2 is less than 40 cm long, and can fit in a laptop bag. It is not fragile and easy to transport.

Unobtrusive: The S2 does not require any head mounted equipment, nor does it require any large or heavy support hardware. It is a lightweight solution that can be used with existing equipment and leaves users at ease.

Fast and easy to setup, and fits into a laptop bag. The S2 Eye Tracker is a small USB device that takes less than a minute to setup. The eye tracker equipment sits unobtrusively below the monitor, facing the user. It uses advanced computer vision algorithms to track the eyes and produce point of gaze data at a rate of 60 times per second.

The small and light hardware package makes the eye tracker system easily portable between machines or locations. The fact that it does not require a custom monitor or embedded computer allows it to run entirely on existing hardware, keeping costs down and allowing the flexibility of monitor choice.

"I have worked in a vision lab at Harvard, and now in Melbourne, and I can unreservedly recommend the Mirametrix Eye Tracker as an inexpensive and easy-to-use eye tracking solution." – Olivia Carter, PhD, Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne

S2 Eye Tracker Technical Specifications

• Accuracy: 0.5-1 degree range
• Drift: < 0.3 degrees
• Data rate: 60 Hz
• Freedom of head movement: 25 x 11 x 30 cm (Width x Height x Depth)
• Calibration: 9 point (~ 15 seconds to complete), long lasting
• Binocular tracking: Yes
• Tracking type: Bright pupil
• Supports: Eye glasses (particularly 3D), head tilting, head shaking, excessive blinking
• Reacquisition of Eyes: < 16 ms
• Physical Dimensions: 35 x 4 x 3 cm (Width x Height x Depth)
• Weight: ~0.3 kg (0.7 lbs)

Eye Tracking Viewer Software

The S2 Eye Tracker comes with the Eye Tracking Viewer Software, which is used to monitor, track and record eye gaze data. As a subject uses a computer equipped with the S2 Eye Tracker, Viewer can be used to record a video of the on-screen activity, which includes exactly where the user is looking. By using a second monitor, this video can even be shown as it is being recorded. Below is a video recorded by Eye Tracker Viewer Software while a user read a news website.

The Eye Tracking Viewer software is a simple-to-use program for recording an eye tracking session. The eye tracking software works in the background and creates a video of the screen, overlaid with red dots showing exactly where the user is looking at that moment in time. It can also save the eye gaze data as an XML or CSV document for simple processing by a custom application.

S2 Eye Tracker API

The S2 Eye Tracker supports an open standard eye-gaze interface. The interface uses TCP/IP for data communication and XML for data structures. Our vision is to see this API adopted by many eye tracker developers, providing application developers a standardised interface to eye gaze hardware. For now this easy to use and free eye tracker API provides a simple way to interface with the S2 Eye Tracker.

The S2 Eye Tracker API requires no software download whatsoever. The free eye tracker API is available to existing customers. You can access the API documentation below and begin integrating with any other application that supports TCP/IP for data communication and XML data structures.

For more information please contact the MicroWay sales team:
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