DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5 12ad93d24c Gaze: install our eye tracker, prefer it, and say why a calibration dot wasn't taken ...

A user on a fresh install got "Calibration failed: only 0 of 21 dots" with
no reason. The installer never installed our tracker, so gaze used
SteamVR's, and the only way SteamVR's tracker rejects a dot is losing an
eye for most of the look. The panel just showed a red ring.

- install.sh: step 9/10 installs our tracker (gaze/tracker/install.sh)
  after gaze mode, yes by default; it needs sudo, so --yes runs it only
  when sudo won't prompt. If it fails, gaze keeps SteamVR's tracker.
  Configs that still say GAZE_TRACKER=steam (the old template) are asked
  whether to switch.
- GAZE_TRACKER=auto, the new default: ours when it's installed (the
  frame grabber, its unit, and ft-eyes' Python), else SteamVR's.
  ft-gazed rechecks every second, so installing it switches over. Input
  Settings lists Own tracker first as recommended, and says how to
  install it when it's missing (checking the host's /etc through
  /run/host from the dev container).
- The calibration panel has a note line, orange over the instructions:
  why a dot wasn't taken (an eye lost, a blink, the eyes disagreeing for
  SteamVR's tracker, from steady_samples' new drop counts; ft-eyes' reply
  for ours), what a click is still waiting for after 1.5 s, and a failed
  calibration's most common reason, which the Gaze page shows too.
  steady_samples keeps the same samples as before (checked on 2037
  windows of recordings); a lost eye is named before a blink, since its
  openness reads 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-10-01 20:48:52 -06:00

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Gaze: install our eye tracker, prefer it, and say why a calibration dot wasn't taken

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