Title
Arett: Augmented Reality Eye Tracking Toolkit For Head Mounted Displays
Abstract
Currently an increasing number of head mounted displays (HMD) for virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) are equipped with integrated eye trackers. Use cases of these integrated eye trackers include rendering optimization and gaze-based user interaction. In addition, visual attention in VR and AR is interesting for applied research based on eye tracking in cognitive or educational sciences for example. While some research toolkits for VR already exist, only a few target AR scenarios. In this work, we present an open-source eye tracking toolkit for reliable gaze data acquisition in AR based on Unity 3D and the Microsoft HoloLens 2, as well as an R package for seamless data analysis. Furthermore, we evaluate the spatial accuracy and precision of the integrated eye tracker for fixation targets with different distances and angles to the user (n=21). On average, we found that gaze estimates are reported with an angular accuracy of 0.83 degrees and a precision of 0.27 degrees while the user is resting, which is on par with state-of-the-art mobile eye trackers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/s21062234
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
augmented reality, eye tracking, toolkit, accuracy, precision
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sebastian Kapp100.34
Michael Barz2179.74
Sergey Mukhametov300.34
Daniel Sonntag429256.22
Jochen Kuhn5228.28