Eyeware Tech S.A.
| Privately owned | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Human Computer Interaction |
| Founded 📆 | 2016 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Martigny, Switzerland |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Kenneth Funes(C.E.O.) |
| Products 📟 | Eye tracking solutions[buzzword] |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | beam |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Eyeware Beam is a multi-purpose head and eye-tracking tool developed by Eyeware Tech S.A., a computer vision and AI technology founded in Switzerland in 2016. [1]Eyeware Beam uses the Apple iPhone and iPad TrueDepth camera Face ID technology to enable remote and accurate eye and head tracking functionalities. [2]The iOS app works as the input source that generates an accurate head pose and eye tracking signal comparable to proprietary devices from Tobii or TrackIR. The TrueDepth camera technology produces a depth map of the face by projecting 30,000 infrared points that are recorded and processed by the smartphone chip’s neural engine. The iOS app as stated by its developers, enables responsive head-tracking with degrees of freedom (6DOF). There are no other peripherals required. The current release of the app is in beta and is iOS 13 and later only, but an Android app is in development.
The app has been showcased with different driving and flight simulator, and first-person shooter PC games compatible with OpenTrack.[3] The head-tracking controls can be used with any game that supports FreeTrack or TrackIR protocol. The most prominent PC games showing the head-tracking features are with Microsoft Flight Simulator, Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, ArmA, DayZ, Assetto Corsa, Prepar3D, America's Army, EVE: Valkyrie – Warzone, American Truck Simulator, Turismo Carretera, IL2: Sturmovik, DCS World, Kerbal Space Program, and European Truck Simulator 2.[4] In addition to video games, the Eyeware Beam app has been shown in videos to livestream with Twitch, Youtube, and Facebook by communicating with the user's eye gaze on-screen with OBS Studio, Crossclip, and other third party and open source software.
An official SDK is available for download in Eyeware Beam's developer's page[5] and it is said that developers and independent software vendors are building other eye tracking-enabled PC solutions with capabilities to access head and eye tracking data in real-time.[6] These solutions will apparently transform an iOS device into an eye and head tracking peripheral for a Windows PC to connect to gaming devices, simulators, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), biometric devices, and more. The head and eye tracking use cases may benefit software apps in some of the following areas: gaming tech, e-Learning, psychology, screening tests for psychological research including ADHD and autism, machine learning and data science, consumer behavior, computer science, cognitive processes, emotion AI, occupational safety, tech and engineering, human factors, website UX and UI testing, mobile app testing, product design, biometrics, neuromarketing, accessibility (AAC), windows eye control, human-machine interaction, marketing and advertising, UX user research.
The company closed its first round of 1.9M CHF ($1.9M USD) venture funding in 2019 led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), in partnership with TRUMPF Venture GmbH, Swiss Startup Group, and Zurich Kantonalbank.[7]
Supported games[edit]
As of 2021 there are around 200 TrackIR protocol enhanced games that can use the Eyeware Beam head-tracking control with up to six degrees of freedom.[8]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Eyeware - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- ↑ gonnyz (2017-10-25). "'Apple heeft eisen voor Face ID versoepeld, om productie op te voeren'". iCulture (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- ↑ "Eyeware Beam : l'application transforme votre iPhone en outil d'eye tracking". Toms Guide : actualités high-tech et logiciels (in français). 2021-01-11. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- ↑ "CES 2021: aankondingen voor Apple-gebruikers van dit jaar op een rijtje". iCulture (in Nederlands). 2021-01-13. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- ↑ "Eyeware Beam - Turn your phone into a head and eye tracker". Eyeware Beam. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- ↑ Tech, Eyeware. "Eyeware releases SDK for the Eyeware Beam iOS app transforming half a billion active iPhones into head and eye trackers as an alternative to Tobii without extra hardware". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- ↑ "Eyeware Tech SA". Startup Ticker. Retrieved 2021-09-08. Unknown parameter
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