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Keep the gaze going when the tracker loses one eye
Live, the tracker had lost the left eye (openness 0, set 2's eyes 9 to 14 degrees apart) and ft-gazed dropped 96% of samples as blinks. A blink is now both eyes closing, each judged against its own recent good readings, and the service defaults to mmap set 1, SteamVR's combined gaze, which keeps going with one eye. With set 2, one-eye samples are still dropped, since its combined direction is off by half of what the lost eye reads. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ gaze/ft-gazectl on # the pointer follows your gaze (off: the mouse al
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Gaze as an input method for the whole desktop, without replacing anything of SteamVR's:
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- `ft-gazed` (host Python, a user service: `gaze/run.sh install`) runs ft-gaze and corrects its gaze. It drops blinks and dropouts, smooths with a fixation lock, and applies the calibration from the probe (`calibration.json`, reloaded when the probe changes it) plus what the pointer has learned since (`pointer-lessons.json`). It sends the result to the pointer helper 90 times a second. It follows SteamVR's eye tracking log, and when the headset goes back on (SteamVR starts its eye model over, and the error moves), older lessons count less, so the first few after relearn the offset.
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- `ft-gazed` (host Python, a user service: `gaze/run.sh install`) runs ft-gaze and corrects its gaze. It uses SteamVR's combined gaze (mmap set 1), which keeps going when the tracker loses one eye; set 2's combined direction is off by half of whatever the lost eye reads, and the tracker does lose an eye for minutes at a time. It drops blinks (both eyes closing), smooths with a fixation lock, and applies the calibration from the probe (`calibration.json`, reloaded when the probe changes it) plus what the pointer has learned since (`pointer-lessons.json`). It sends the result to the pointer helper 90 times a second. It follows SteamVR's eye tracking log, and when the headset goes back on (SteamVR starts its eye model over, and the error moves), older lessons count less, so the first few after relearn the offset.
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- The pointer helper's **gaze mode** (off by default: `gaze/ft-gazectl on`, `POINTER_GAZE=1` in `~/.config/frametop.conf`, or a button mapped to "Gaze pointer on/off") works like MAGIC pointing (Zhai et al., 1999). The pointer goes where you look. Move the mouse and it's the mouse's, from where the gaze put it, for the last bit. Look well away (5 degrees) and the gaze takes it back. Clicks and drags work as usual.
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- **Learning from nudges:** if the mouse took the pointer from the gaze and moved it a little (0.2 to 8 degrees) before you clicked, you were nudging it onto what you looked at. The helper sends that as a lesson, from the raw gaze when the mouse took over to where you clicked, and ft-gazed learns it. So using it is what calibrates it. `ft-gazectl status` shows the lessons, and `ft-gazectl forget` drops them.
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- Nothing writes to SteamVR, its eye tracker, or its files: ft-gaze maps the eye tracker's shared memory read-only. With no fresh gaze (a blink, the service stopped, the headset off), the pointer stays where it is, and the mouse works as always.
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