Tobii Vision Tracking Glasses

Hardware

  • Tobii Pro Glasses 3

  • Recording pack

Software

  • Tobii Pro Lab (only one key active at one time)

  • Glasses 3 controller application

Setup & Start

Pre-setup

  • Make sure you have charged the batteries.

  • Make sure you have empty SD cards available for a new project.

Video

Powering the glasses on

This is what I do first, so that the signal can start broadcasting.

  1. Insert a battery into the recording unit.
  2. Hold a finger over the power button until it lights up green.
  3. Plug in glasses

Get the tablet

  1. Log into tablet.
  2. Launch Glasses 3 Controller app.
  3. It should auto connect to the glasses name (RU_#). If it doesn’t, you can find the signal from the glasses in the same menu as Wi-Fi connections. It could also broadcast the ID # of the recording unit.

Begin recording

  1. Enter participant name.
  2. Calibrate glasses with the target card.
  3. Begin recording.

Import / Export video

  1. Take the SD card out of the recording unit and insert it into a computer.
  2. For just the raw footage without gaze overlay, navigate into the SD card and copy / paste the videos needed.
  3. For gaze analysis and overlay, open the Tobii Pro Labs desktop app. Begin a new project, and select the SD card itself to import your videos.

Tobii Pro Labs

There is a lot to unpack here. The best way to understand this app is through Tobii’s academy. Run through some of the training available and mess around with a few fun projects to see what is available.

Tobii Academy

For the most basic use, all of the data you would be interested in exporting can be found in the “Metrics” tab, as well as the “Data Export” tab. Here, you can scroll through what data is available, select the information you would like, and export it as an excel file.

For example, in the cognitive load pilot study, each participant recording was time stamped at various stages in the pilot. These markers are available to be exported and analyzed.

FAQ

You can make an account or use mine, just ask. Support HERE

To update the glasses, go through setup and connect them to the tablet, select the settings cog in the top right of the controller app. You will see a dropdown menu to view the firmware and update if there is a new version.

Restart setup. Turn everything off and on.

Try different lighting, or areas of the room. Make sure the participant doesn’t have lots of dramatic eye makeup, piercings, or large fake eyelashes. There was only one instance where the glasses actually malfunctioned due to one of the cameras not working properly. After restarting setup and attempting calibrationa couple times, if issues still persist contact Tobii support.