The link http://hci.soc.napier.ac.uk/GazeTrack/ seems to be down and I cannot reach Mr. Esteves. First it appeared in the library list of processing but it couldn’t been loaded. Now it has completely disappeared.
Do you have an alternate download link or access to the library you are willing to share with me?
Hello Tony, yes, if you click on the link for the gazetrack library that you need to install manually you (at least I do) get a 404 page not found. The email address of the author doesn’t seem to exist anymore. Please help me. Best regards, Johan
The link in the README is dead, but i think the pertinent code is all there in the repo (albeit, not labeled the same as the instructions). It might require some library-wrangling and trial-and-error thought
I’m specifically looking at the .jars under gazetrack/GazeTrack/lib/
So far a lot of trial and an even amount of errors. Is there a reason why the library has been removed? Has someone a backup? Am I the only one wanting to explore the eye gaze function with processing?
It might not have been removed - but if Esteves has been the only one maintaining it, it might not get updated that regularly. Thats the unfortunate nature of open-source. A project might die or disappear on the whim of its creator.
The other reason; perhaps there are much more accessible eye-tracking libraries out there, written in more popular languages (like javascript or python).
I think I have a version of the gazetrack library kicking about, might not be the latest version, however I’m away away from my development rig currently.
If you can flick me a message tomorrow I’ll have a dig around for you.
I made agame using the tobii eyetracker that never quite got finished. Fun toy though.
Thanks for checking Tribblesontoast. The library for the EyeX seems to be still in the list, it is the one for the 4C that was available and suddenly disappeared. Perhaps someone downloaded it in the past and can make it available to me?
It looks like Augusto literally committed to the GazeTrack repo yesterday – there are five commits in the last two days. If you need an old release instead, the 2014 release is on releases tab for download, and if it doesn’t work, opening an issue on the repo seems the best way to contact him and request a new release.
Good news. It works now …kind of…
Thanks to jeremydouglass and tony for pointing out there was an update of the GitHub repo:
the broken link has been replaced by http://web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/~augusto.esteves/GazeTrack/
It is important you import the library called UDP (in the menu Sketch > import library > add library…)
Examples Basic and Dwell work at this point.
I haven’t got the other examples to work yet.
Thanks of coarse to the author Mr. Esteves.