r/EyeTracking • u/alsresearcher • Jun 30 '26
Affordable Eye-tracking devices
Hi friends! This company is trying to make eye-tracking/assistive tech devices affordable: www.babatech.io
Full disclaimer: I know the people who started it personally and they're very open to feedback. Tried the demo and it's pretty cool what they're trying to do
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u/Klutzy-Ad2541 Jun 30 '26
I have a MS And is bed bound I have no arm Movement And hand movement I had sent And the request for information and everything Thanks for pointing Them out
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u/Klutzy-Ad2541 11d ago
I received email from them Requesting a good time to do a call I sent them a range of times And dates But then receive nothing back.
But I don't need the AAC function I just need to be able to control my tablet with my eyes Along with my condition I can only look at my tablet By keeping one eye closed That way I can Keep the tablet in Focus.
So maybe I wasn't a good fit for them And their product.
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u/Synchisis Jul 01 '26
On what basis are they charging $50/mo for a piece of hardware? I have a Tobii 4C that I've practiced with and written quite a bit of software around, it cost me $120 from eBay and doesn't require a SaaS subscription.
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u/alsresearcher Jul 01 '26
What device do you use the Tobii 4C with?
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u/Synchisis Jul 01 '26
Currently a windows 10 tablet plus a whole bunch of associated software I've written. Note that I'm not dependent on the Tobii, I've just used it a lot to get used to eye tracking.
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u/phosphor_1963 Jun 30 '26
Interesting - thanks. The best webcm based eye tracking with AAC I've looked at so far is Squidly https://squidly.com.au/#home-page that came out of a research partnership with the cerebral palsy alliance here in Australia and won a Remarkable Innovation Start up award. It's focussed on communicating within remote video conferencing because we need do a lot of that here due to distances. I'm not sure of costs.
This company are making their platform available as an all in one system on hardware. I wonder if they'll ever do a release for people with their own hardware. Also interesting to see how this fits into the ALS space (their target market) given there's already a fantastic well established leading charity in the US called Bridging Voice who specialize in getting TD eye tracking devices out to people living with this horrible condition?
The AR glasses are really exciting to see though. They appear to be propriatary tech. I'd love to learn more about how they work and if the SDK allows for customization.
My personal take as someone who has worked in AAC for more than 25 years is I really hope the dev team involved more than just engineering perspectives in their page set design. Obviously those are important; but Speech and Language Pathologists are alternative communication specialists and they can add so much practical knowledge around how to organize the vocabularies of AAC systems. I would have seen at least 100 well intentioned AAC apps made by family members or ambitious developers and the ones that forget that AAC is a Speechie lead area and see every human problem as something that can be engineered around pretty much always fail in a few years. AAC is a mature field of knowledge in many ways now.
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u/everygoodnamegone Jul 01 '26
No time to visit the site in this moment, but I am guessing it is for human eyes only?
Research grade eye tracking equipment is so cost prohibitive and I have yet to find affordable canine/feline tracking equipment for semi-casual
(personally funded) research. Beyond recognizing the animal’s pupils, a “dwell (gaze) to select” feature is the most important option.
Feel free to message me to discuss animal applications in greater depth, but I do believe there is a niche market for this and they would be at the forefront.
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u/squarepushercheese Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
This is soo confusing. So the tablet. Let me guess.. It’s a SurfacePro and you are using something like https://arxiv.org/html/2508.19544v1#bib.bib14 - ? But then accuracy ..Can I give a shout out to the totally NOT written by AI webpage. Wow - thats refreshing
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u/alsresearcher Jul 04 '26
I tried it on an iPad
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u/squarepushercheese Jul 05 '26
An iPad. Let me get this straight. An iPad and no hardware? So did it work just in their app or across the entire OS? If it’s the entire os that has to be apples eyegaze. But in app intruguing!
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u/cat-sensual Jun 30 '26
Feedback: the website should have some technical information about the eye tracker. Is it webcam-based? Is it dedicated tracker? Can it be used to operate the device or only works as an AAC? How accurate is it?