Eye Tracking

What is Eye Tracking?

Eye Tracking technology monitors user gaze direction within head-mounted displays, enabling intuitive control mechanisms, improved rendering efficiency through foveated rendering, and more natural interaction with virtual environments.

How does Eye Tracking work?

Eye Tracking is a sophisticated system that employs specialized infrared cameras integrated within headsets that capture eye position and movement patterns at frequencies exceeding 120Hz, providing precise data about where users are focusing their attention.

Such capabilities unlock numerous application possibilities across industries: architectural visualization professionals can analyze which building elements attract most attention, educational developers can create materials that adapt based on where students look, and healthcare applications can diagnose vision disorders through gaze pattern analysis.

How is Eye Tracking used?

Perhaps most significantly, eye tracking enables foveated rendering - an optimization technique that concentrates computational resources on where the user is actually looking while reducing detail in peripheral vision, mimicking natural human visual processing.

This approach can dramatically improve performance by reducing unnecessary rendering workloads, allowing applications to deliver higher overall visual quality within the same processing constraints. By supporting interaction methods that align with instinctive human behavior rather than requiring learned input techniques, eye tracking contributes significantly to reducing the learning curve for immersive technology adoption across professional and consumer applications.