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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5 f1c385aa59 Add ft-gazed, the gaze service, and ft-gazectl
ft-gazed runs ft-gaze, drops blinks and dropouts, smooths with a fixation
lock, applies the probe's calibration plus what the pointer has taught
since, and sends the corrected gaze to the pointer helper at 90 Hz. The
helper sends lessons back (a nudge before a click), which are learned and
saved. It only reads the eye tracker; nothing of SteamVR's is written.
gaze/run.sh installs it as a user service that starts with SteamVR;
ft-gazectl turns gaze mode on and off and shows the service's status.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-27 22:51:24 -06:00

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#!/usr/bin/python3
"""ft-gazed: the gaze service. The headset's eye tracking, corrected, for the pointer.
Runs ft-gaze (in the dev container), and for every eye tracker sample (90 Hz):
1. drops blinks and moments the tracker lost an eye: openness under half its running
median, or the angle between the eyes jumping more than 1.5 degrees from its median;
2. smooths it with a fixation lock (the running mean of the current fixation, 1 degree);
3. corrects it: the calibration from ft-gazeprobe (calibration.json, reloaded when the
probe changes it) plus what the pointer's corrections have taught since (LiveCorrection,
saved in pointer-lessons.json);
4. sends it to the pointer helper: "gz <yaw> <pitch> <raw yaw> <raw pitch>", head-relative
degrees (yaw +left, pitch +up). The helper uses it only in gaze mode.
Lessons come back from the helper: when you nudge the gaze-placed pointer with the mouse and
click, it sends "lesson <raw yaw> <raw pitch> <true yaw> <true pitch>": where the raw gaze
was when the mouse took over, and where the pointer was when you clicked (you were looking
there). The gap is the tracker's error there, and it's learned, unless it's more than
LESSON_MAX degrees past the correction (then it wasn't a nudge onto what you looked at).
SteamVR's eye tracking log is followed for the headset going on (its eye model starts over,
and the error moves): lessons from before count less then, so the first few after it
relearn the offset.
Nothing here writes to SteamVR, its eye tracker, or its files: ft-gaze reads the eye
tracker's shared memory read-only.
Control socket: abstract unix datagram "@ft_gazed":
lesson <rhy> <rhp> <thy> <thp> from the pointer helper (see above)
status reply: one JSON object
forget drop what the lessons taught (the calibration stays)
reload read calibration.json again
Options: --source action|mmap1|mmap2 (default mmap2, the quietest), -v (a status line every
5 s on stderr), --to NAME (send the gaze to the abstract socket @NAME instead of the pointer
helper; for testing: a helper without gaze mode forwards what it doesn't know to its driver).
"""
import argparse
import json
import os
import selectors
import signal
import socket
import statistics
import subprocess
import sys
import time
from collections import deque
from pathlib import Path
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent))
from gazecal import DEFAULT_MODEL, MODELS, STATE, Correction, Fixation, LiveCorrection, SteamEyeLog # noqa: E402
REPO = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
HELPER = REPO / "gaze" / "build" / "ft-gaze"
ME = "\0ft_gazed"
POINTER = "\0ft_pointer_helper"
CALIBRATION = STATE / "calibration.json"
LESSONS = STATE / "pointer-lessons.json"
LESSON_LOG = STATE / "pointer-lessons.jsonl"
LESSON_MAX = 8.0 # degrees past the correction
RETRY = 3.0 # seconds before starting ft-gaze again
def log(msg):
print(f"ft-gazed: {msg}", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
class Service:
def __init__(self, source, verbose, to=POINTER):
self.source, self.verbose, self.to = source, verbose, to
STATE.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
self.base = Correction()
self.mode = DEFAULT_MODEL
self.cal_mtime = None
self.live = LiveCorrection()
self.dirty = False
self.load_calibration()
self.load_lessons()
self.steam = SteamEyeLog()
self.steam.poll()
self.live.wear_time = self.steam.worn()
self.live.refit(self.base, self.mode)
self.fix = Fixation(radius=1.0)
self.opens = deque(maxlen=90)
self.vergence = deque(maxlen=90)
self.counts = {"samples": 0, "sent": 0, "dropped": 0, "lessons": 0, "refused": 0}
self.last_sample = 0.0
self.last = None
self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_DGRAM | socket.SOCK_CLOEXEC | socket.SOCK_NONBLOCK)
self.sock.bind(ME)
self.out = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_DGRAM | socket.SOCK_CLOEXEC | socket.SOCK_NONBLOCK)
self.sel = selectors.DefaultSelector()
self.sel.register(self.sock, selectors.EVENT_READ, "control")
self.proc = None
self.buf = b""
self.restart_at = 0.0
self.running = True
# --- Calibration and lessons ---
def load_calibration(self):
try:
mtime = CALIBRATION.stat().st_mtime
d = json.loads(CALIBRATION.read_text())
except (OSError, ValueError):
return
self.cal_mtime = mtime
if self.source in d:
self.base.from_json(d[self.source])
mode = d.get("_meta", {}).get("model")
self.mode = mode if mode in MODELS else DEFAULT_MODEL
log(f"calibration: {self.mode}, {self.base.samples} samples")
def load_lessons(self):
try:
d = json.loads(LESSONS.read_text())
if d.get("source") == self.source:
self.live.samples = d.get("samples", [])[-LiveCorrection.KEEP:]
except (OSError, ValueError):
pass
log(f"{len(self.live.samples)} lessons")
def save_lessons(self):
tmp = LESSONS.with_suffix(".tmp")
tmp.write_text(json.dumps({"source": self.source, "samples": self.live.samples}))
tmp.replace(LESSONS)
self.dirty = False
def correction(self, hy, hp):
by, bp = self.base.get(hy, hp, self.mode)
ly, lp = self.live.get(hy, hp)
return by + ly, bp + lp
def lesson(self, rhy, rhp, thy, thp):
dy, dp = thy - rhy, thp - rhp # the whole error there
cy, cp = self.correction(rhy, rhp)
left = ((dy - cy) ** 2 + (dp - cp) ** 2) ** 0.5
rec = {"time": time.time(), "source": self.source, "model": self.mode, "raw": [rhy, rhp],
"true": [thy, thp], "correction": [cy, cp], "lesson_deg": left, "wear": self.steam.worn()}
if left > LESSON_MAX:
rec["refused"] = f"more than {LESSON_MAX} deg past the correction"
self.counts["refused"] += 1
else:
self.live.add({"time": rec["time"], "hy": rhy, "hp": rhp, "dy": dy, "dp": dp, "wy": 1.0, "wp": 1.0,
"how": "pointer"}, self.base, self.mode)
self.counts["lessons"] += 1
self.dirty = True
try:
with open(LESSON_LOG, "a") as f:
f.write(json.dumps(rec) + "\n")
except OSError as e:
log(f"lesson log: {e}")
return rec
# --- ft-gaze ---
def start_helper(self):
if not HELPER.exists():
log(f"ft-gaze isn't built: run {REPO}/gaze/build.sh")
self.restart_at = time.monotonic() + 30
return
env = dict(os.environ)
env["XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"] = f"/run/user/{os.getuid()}" # podman needs the real one
subprocess.run([str(REPO / "scripts" / "container-up.sh")], env=env, check=False)
distrobox = Path.home() / ".local" / "bin" / "distrobox"
# ft-gaze quits when its stdin closes: the one thing distrobox passes on.
self.proc = subprocess.Popen([str(distrobox), "enter", "dev", "--", str(HELPER), "--watch-stdin"], env=env,
stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
start_new_session=True)
os.set_blocking(self.proc.stdout.fileno(), False)
os.set_blocking(self.proc.stderr.fileno(), False)
self.sel.register(self.proc.stdout, selectors.EVENT_READ, "stdout")
self.sel.register(self.proc.stderr, selectors.EVENT_READ, "stderr")
self.buf = b""
log("ft-gaze started")
def stop_helper(self):
if not self.proc:
return
for f in (self.proc.stdout, self.proc.stderr):
try:
self.sel.unregister(f)
except (KeyError, ValueError):
pass
if self.proc.stdin and not self.proc.stdin.closed:
self.proc.stdin.close()
try:
self.proc.wait(timeout=2)
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
try:
os.killpg(self.proc.pid, signal.SIGTERM)
except ProcessLookupError:
pass
self.proc = None
def read_stdout(self):
try:
data = os.read(self.proc.stdout.fileno(), 65536)
except BlockingIOError:
return
if not data:
log(f"ft-gaze stopped (exit {self.proc.poll()}); again in {RETRY:.0f} s")
self.stop_helper()
self.restart_at = time.monotonic() + RETRY
return
self.buf += data
*lines, self.buf = self.buf.split(b"\n")
for line in lines:
try:
self.on_sample(json.loads(line))
except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError) as e:
log(f"bad sample: {e}")
def read_stderr(self):
try:
data = os.read(self.proc.stderr.fileno(), 65536)
except BlockingIOError:
return
for line in data.decode("utf-8", "replace").splitlines():
if line.strip():
log(line)
def on_sample(self, s):
src = s["src"].get(self.source) or {}
if "hy" not in src:
return
self.counts["samples"] += 1
self.last_sample = time.monotonic()
m1 = s["src"].get("mmap1") or {}
o = m1.get("open")
lr = src.get("lr", m1.get("lr"))
if o:
self.opens.append(min(o))
if lr is not None:
self.vergence.append(lr)
# Blinks and dropouts, judged against the last second (see steady_samples: relative,
# because the lids come down looking down, and the vergence depends on distance).
if o and len(self.opens) >= 30 and min(o) < max(0.12, 0.5 * statistics.median(self.opens)):
self.counts["dropped"] += 1
return
if lr is not None and len(self.vergence) >= 30 and abs(lr - statistics.median(self.vergence)) > 1.5:
self.counts["dropped"] += 1
return
# The fixation lock works in degrees here (1 degree per "pixel").
fy, fp = self.fix(src["hy"], src["hp"], s["t"], 1.0)
cy, cp = self.correction(fy, fp)
self.last = (fy + cy, fp + cp, fy, fp)
try:
self.out.sendto(f"gz {fy + cy:.3f} {fp + cp:.3f} {fy:.3f} {fp:.3f}".encode(), self.to)
self.counts["sent"] += 1
except OSError:
pass # the pointer helper isn't running
# --- Control ---
def on_control(self):
while True:
try:
data, addr = self.sock.recvfrom(512)
except BlockingIOError:
return
words = data.decode("utf-8", "replace").split()
reply = None
if words[:1] == ["lesson"] and len(words) == 5:
try:
rec = self.lesson(*map(float, words[1:]))
reply = "refused" if "refused" in rec else f"ok {rec['lesson_deg']:.2f}"
log(f"lesson {rec['lesson_deg']:.2f} deg at {rec['raw'][0]:+.1f},{rec['raw'][1]:+.1f}"
+ (f": {rec['refused']}" if "refused" in rec else ""))
except ValueError:
reply = "error bad lesson"
elif words[:1] == ["status"]:
reply = json.dumps(self.status())
elif words[:1] == ["forget"]:
self.live = LiveCorrection()
self.live.wear_time = self.steam.worn()
self.save_lessons()
reply = "ok"
elif words[:1] == ["reload"]:
self.load_calibration()
self.live.refit(self.base, self.mode)
reply = "ok"
else:
reply = "error unknown command"
if reply and addr:
try:
self.sock.sendto(reply.encode(), addr)
except OSError:
pass
def status(self):
ly, lp = self.live.offset()
return {"source": self.source, "model": self.mode, "calibration_samples": self.base.samples,
"lessons": len(self.live.samples), "lesson_offset": [round(ly, 3), round(lp, 3)],
"ft_gaze": self.proc is not None, "sample_age_s": round(time.monotonic() - self.last_sample, 2)
if self.last_sample else None, "headset_on": self.steam.wearing(), "headset_on_since": self.steam.worn(),
"last": [round(v, 2) for v in self.last] if self.last else None, **self.counts}
def periodic(self):
if self.steam.poll() or self.steam.worn() != self.live.wear_time:
if self.steam.worn() != self.live.wear_time:
log("headset on again: older lessons count less until new ones come in")
self.live.wear_time = self.steam.worn()
self.live.refit(self.base, self.mode)
try:
mtime = CALIBRATION.stat().st_mtime
except OSError:
mtime = None
if mtime != self.cal_mtime:
self.load_calibration()
self.live.refit(self.base, self.mode)
if self.dirty:
self.save_lessons()
def run(self):
next_periodic = time.monotonic()
next_verbose = time.monotonic() + 5
while self.running:
now = time.monotonic()
if not self.proc and now >= self.restart_at:
self.start_helper()
for key, _ in self.sel.select(timeout=0.5):
if key.data == "control":
self.on_control()
elif key.data == "stdout" and self.proc:
self.read_stdout()
elif key.data == "stderr" and self.proc:
self.read_stderr()
if now >= next_periodic:
self.periodic()
next_periodic = now + 1.0
if self.verbose and now >= next_verbose:
log(json.dumps(self.status()))
next_verbose = now + 5
self.stop_helper()
if self.dirty:
self.save_lessons()
def main():
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="The gaze service: corrected eye tracking for the pointer")
ap.add_argument("--source", choices=["action", "mmap1", "mmap2"], default="mmap2")
ap.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true")
ap.add_argument("--to", default="ft_pointer_helper", help="abstract socket to send the gaze to")
args = ap.parse_args()
try:
service = Service(args.source, args.verbose, "\0" + args.to)
except OSError as e:
log(f"can't bind @ft_gazed (already running?): {e}")
sys.exit(1)
def stop(*_):
service.running = False
signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, stop)
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, stop)
service.run()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()