These Smart Glasses Track Exactly What You're Looking At

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These Smart Glasses Track Exactly What You're Looking At
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Your devices already track your location and communication — why **t what you're looking at, too? That's the promise of the Tobii (http://mashable.com/category/tobii/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Glasses 2, a pair of high-tech glasses that can track your eyes.

Why would you ever want to do such a thing? You probably wouldn't, but researchers of visual systems are clamoring for that kind of information — what, for instance, a person spends the most time looking at when they're watching TV while holding a tablet.

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The glasses are designed primarily for those kinds of scenarios: research projects, testing rooms and simulators — where the thing being looked at isn't just a computer or tablet screen, which would be better served by **n-wearable eye tracking like Tobii's EyeX (http://mashable.com/2014/01/02/tobii-eye-controller-gaming/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). If you want to study what part of a person's face people look at in various social situations, for example, the Tobii Glasses 2 can tell you. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/19/tobii-glasses/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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