Tobii Eye Tracker 5 - The Truckers Review 

I bought one of these from Amazon on Black Friday, purely for use in ETS2 and ATS, and I love it! Made my own video giving the settings I use. I too disabled eye tracking and just use head tracking, because it's _so_ responsive to eye movement that my in-game head was darting around all over the place and quickly made me feel sick.

Hey Wombat! came from your live stream :) Wow it actually looks way better than I thought! Thank you for showing me this and for your review :)

Hi Wombat, Thanks for this video it was a great help. Yes the Tobii Eye Tracker 5 is a bit expensive but I got one, (Thank you Father Christmas in advance) and it's made ETS2 even better than it was. Just about got the set up how I want it. Once again a BIG Thank you Wombat.

Black Friday on friday and I'm buying it! Thanks for the awesome review!

I did a video on it for flight simulation. I would give it a 5/5. You are correct it is expensive, but at the same time nothing compares to it. It is the best in class for head and eye tracking. It will absolutely get support for MSFS2020. Great video and review!

Great review on this Wombat. Yes it is expensive and I agree with you that it should have been around 160/80 eros rather than 220e. But I wanted something that is easy to set up and to be able to play ETS/ATS withot having to wear a headset, so I bit the bullet and ordered the Tobii Eye Tracker 5, which should make playing both these sims so much easier than having to use the mouse to look left and right from inside the cab. Maybe it will come down in price as better models come on the market, but that is the same with all hi tech software. I play both games quite a lot as well as Farm Simulator 2019 which it also supports, so I suppose it was worth buying for the amount of use it will get. As a retired truck driver, ETS/ATS certainly is as realistic as it gets compared to being behind the wheel of a real truck. Great channel Wombat and happy trucking. Geoffersh

This is pretty much what I needed to know. There is a similar product, the TrackIR, which tracks your headmovements, but not the eyes. At first I was wondering if they would work in conjunction, but now I realise that the Tobii ET5 has the head tracking as well. Awesome. Thanks for posting, mate. That's a great review. Actually, the TrackIR is more expensive, and doesnt seem to have the same features or game support. This review just killed any thoughts of buying one.

Fair review covering majority of the points I wanted to know, thank you.

I agree with you completely. As I mentioned to you in the past, my 4c has been sitting in the closet since a couple of months after purchase. I'm happily back on my Trackir with no issues. Tobii would have to do a "trade in" LOL for me to even consider the "5"!!!

Thanks for the review of this product.

Imagine wombat with fatigued eyes without glasses at 3am in your room

Cheapest I could get one new was $540 Australian dollars. If you spend hours a day every day playing ETS2 like I do, then it's worth every cent. It makes the game alot more realistic feeling, and looking about while driving and parking so much easier. 10/10 from myself. Good review, cheers.

Best Video about this tracker THX

Great video - thanks a lot for explaining how it works with ATS, since that would be my main reason for getting one. The vertical tracking range is pretty dissapointing though - is this something you dictated in your preferential settings, or is it just not that good for vertical tracking movements? Also can you get a cover for the lens? I always hate having camera lenses pointed at me - you never know what it could be doing, or what someone could do with an exploit / hack.

I spend 35€ on Delans Headtracking. Seems to be the way better deal here. Completely satisfied and the horizontal movement is much bigger, so you can even use it with things like a flight simulator. Thx for the video Wombat (and thx for saving me money ☺)

thanks @wombat for the awesome vid ive subed to your channel and that was awesome :).

Thanks for this video, very useful

MSFS 2020 now has Tobii built in or it recognises the tracker and it works brilliantly. As you said, it is pricey, it cost me £259 from Amazon, I've only had it a few days and have tried it perched on a Saitek flight panel or my Velocity One Flight yoke, it works very well. I haven't attached the bracket or metal mounting plates yet to my 55in TV as if I return it I want Amazon to be able to resell it and at least it won't look used.

Subbed very good detail video

HI Wombat, Thanks for the video all clear and convinced me to buy. One question: understood that tracking unit have to be under the monitor. Using a NLR rig and Fanatic CSW 2.5 wheel. This is blocking the middle of monitor. Is it possible to put it on top of the monitor? Thanks in advance

Hi thank you for the very informative video. In ETS2 I use the look back a lot when reversing, can you tell me is it possible to turn your head to look back but still see the monitor to watch where you are going?

Hi Wombat. US expansion has been updated on the SCS forums to be compatible with Team Reforma mods. Great America will be updated sometime next week to work better with Montana mod.

I had to Re-calibrate my ET5 after my first time because I didn't have my headset on. Putting my headset on threw it off and it couldn't tell I was moving my head. Default settings are a good starting point but everyone will have to tweak them to their liking. Also it doesn't like a stationary Mic between your face and the Sensor bar.

Nice video. Im wondering if it works when lights in my room are flashing, cuz I use philips HUE lights behind my monitors. Im scared it wouldnt work fine together

The folder called hair... I found hilarious..

cool, i bought it today

I have just brought and used this tobii eye tracker and it is hands down miles better than track ir.

In-game ATS controls: x-box controller/mouse-keyboard/tobii5, yet no response from head movements. i went through the set-up attempting to mount tobii on top of the monitor, it will not detect me, after a few retries, mounted it on the bottom, where the monitor power button is located. I wish tobii could detect a wider fov for top mount support, i hope it doesn’t become a paperweight

I see a lot of right/left head movement. How do you set it up for head tracking only? I’ve been pushing buttons for two hours trying to figure it out. Cant do it. Thanks if you can share a few pointers.

Do you recommend trackIR or the Tobii eye tracker for American Truck Sim?

Hi Wombat tell me what's screen size did you use and manufacture.

Thank you for the demonstration Wombat ! But I am wondering if it doesn't hurt your eyes when you are using it for long time ? Cause it uses IR light

Got mine yesterday. Its not really what i expected, but then again i think it needs some tweaking

I've seen videos of people using this for head tracking in Star Citizen and it is significantly more stable than the game's built-in face tracking. Probably makes the FOIP, where the game renders your facial expressions onto your character in real-time, much more accurate as well.

Great video. I have used the TrackIr 5. This is old technology. I hate it. Having to wear a hat to clip the sensor, what a bother. Another thing is how badly affected by the lighting in the room, sun light from the window. I have had to build a black background to deal with this issue. I am hoping that the Tobii 5 I won’t have to worry about these issues. If you have comments about these issues please write back. Thanks for the informative video.

Does the tobii eye tracker decrease ur in game fps, based on ur experience? 😊

Hi Wombat, many thanks for this honest review. Especially your assumption of a worth price is very interesting, i personally assume that for many of us "ets2 and ats truckers in part time" the hurting mark would be be a little lower (mine would be more in the area of 149€). There will be some Pros (Fulltime Streamers) but that are only a few, compared to the engaged part time truckers. If there is no massive price movement in the right direction i would spend the money in other hardware. I cannot understand tobii so far: selling 10 pcs for 229€ vs. selling 1000 pcs. for 149€. I think the pure material and labour costs around 30€ (I'm working in electronic production and we do 80% of the production in Germany SMD, THT, Assembly, Customizing and Testing) A much more reasonable Price would increase the market dramatically. So in that assumption 2290€-300€=1990€ vs. 149000€-30000€=119000€, even if you only assum e a lever of 10 times its 14900€-3000€=11900€. Yes of course the earning per piece is lower, but the total earning per period is higher. I'm curious to see what tobii's reaction to your video is. Yes a really good piece of shit, but not appropriated priced. i can second this conclusion

Nobody talks about the performance of Tobii Eye Trackes 5 in dark rooms. Can you tell something about really really low light conditions?

How is the input lag on this thing?

hi are you able to zoom in in this tobii????

you need to greatly increase sensitivity...I would NEVER move my head around like that to change the camera view !

Anyone using the Eye Tracker 5 with a Samsung G9, which is mounted on a SIM rig? I'm thinking of buying an Eye Tracker 5 but I want to mount it on my G9, which is mounted on my SIM rig, which means there's no table or monitor stand/foot to mount the Eye Tracker on. Also, I'm on Windows 11. Anyone have issues with Eye Tracker 5 and Windows 11?

@Wombat Trucker ... Do you know Delanclip Fusion ? Is that a valid alternative to the Tobii Eye Tracker 5 ? Its wireless, far cheaper, and supposedly works great as well. Only difference is, you need to mount it on your headset (which is supposedly easy), so there is more inconvenience than with the Eye Tracker. Do you have any experience with it ? Technically its more like TrackIR. Would TrackIR be favourable to you instead of Tobii Eye Tracker, or is that so much different than it wouldnt be anything you would consider, especially regarding price difference ? Thanks in advance. Cant decide for the moment.

But does it mount to laptops....like a 17" ?

Salut.tu estimes que c'est mieux qu'un trackir 5 ?

Great review Wombat after buying the Tracker 4C id never buy any thing from Tobii again Track ir all the way makes me laff how SCS software added numbers for the sliders so you can get Accuracy and precision on Tobbii but cant do it for the rest of there interfaces still lets both games down and im like you play both ETS & ATS a lot wish SCS software would take not sick of asking them to do it for there whole game and update what half the slides do

is there a minimum or maximum distance between eyes and tracker to work properly and has there to be a certain angle betweeen eyes and tracker? I ask this because version 4C didn`t work at all for me.

Ive recently bought one of this. There excellent just dont where a high viz coat (it donr work) LOL

Still trying to save up for one LOL i just use a webcam with AITracker and Opentrack, poor man solution 😢

how much better is the head tracking on the 5 compared to the 4c? Would you recommend upgrading from a 4c to a 5?

I use a nice and cheap "EDTracker" device, its a little wired box that sits on top of the headphones, only costs about 30$ and home made. Great for playing ETS / Elite Dangerous etc. However the firm that made them does them no more, guess they aren't popular enough, so when it finally fails I will need to look into upgrading. Just spotted this video and it looks so much better to not have extra wires / boxes on the headphones, however I have an old PC and I think tracker 5 is windows 10 only. Can you confirm if it will work on older version of windows 8.1 -- if not what about v4c of the tracker?

Can you switch it on and off? So that you'll be using it only when you want? I would like to drive for most of the time without it working and switching it on when i want to look around.

Hi Wombat, will this work with 32 inch curved monitors for ETS2?

Roll would be good for Arma3 peeking around corners etc.

I just send it into the traffic in ETS2 without looking to the sides. My ETS2 company will always remain poor from all the speed tickets and crashes anyway. I don't think an eyetracker is necessary, it seems more annoying than beneficial.

For the drinking issue with the tobii could u not set a pause button so when u want a drink you can just pause the tracking

Is it actually smooth? In other comparison Videos people are saying that eye tracking is a bit jerky compares to TrackIR, devices with infrared LEDs. 230€ is a huge amount of money. Anyway it doesn't support my Monitor Samsung C49HG90DMU. I will stick to look left or right while steering

Are red lights visible like in 4 version of this tracker?

track ir 5 pro is wired and hocks up to your head set and dues all of this and your experimental and supports more games then the tobii it also has a built in pause button so you can pause your feedback in case you need to look away or behind you tobii is trying to copy track ir with there head tracking only down fall is track ir dues do not eye tracking

To be fair, TrackIR supports a lot of games but it's almost all older games. Only 6 titles have been added officially according to their list and the others are all very old titles and mostly dead titles for multiplayer games. (Sure for truckers and flight sim users, this doesn't matter.) The Eyetracker is the only thing that sets it apart since other genres (like Assassins Creed) use just the gaze feature. With FaceTrackNoIR (paid third party but still) you can use the Tobii (with their official plugin) with all the other TrackIR games which are unsupported by Tobii (it basically pretends to be TrackIR.)

They have changed(added) features to the adjustment menu, so it looks a little different now(can't find the 'headtrack only'-option?!). Also it would be nice if you made a new video, where you explain (the effect) of every listed features ..cause I don't think it's very intuitive or explained very well..?!? I struggle to get it to focus on the mid-windscreen, while I'm looking out the window - I would like the focus to be on the mid-windscreeen, with secondary focus down on dashbord and route advisor?! ..somehow it tent to focus more to the left side of the windscreen and the mirror?!? ..and would rather focus on the roof-section, than on the dashboard/route advisor???!(it's quite annoying!)

It maybe better without glasses! haha...

Är du svensk (din profilbild är den svenska flaggan)?

And ifnyou have a tv of 65 inch will work?

what happens to people like me that have a weak muscle eye that makes the eye look abit to the left

Give it one year this thing is 250 to 260 bucks, almost half as much as a VR Headset with less than half the functions. That´s not okay. Actually 15 bucks of webcam and a free piece of software will give you all the functionality this thing has for ets and ats, it takes a little bit longer than 10 minutes to set up your curves and has no eye tracking, but unlike this it ignores bottles and nose scratching already.

If you dont need the old one pick me :))

cant mount it on bottom of screen so its no go for me to bad :(

Today black Friday deal

sir when ets 2v1.38 global edition map update relese

the supported screensizes seems a bit dodgy to me(for the eyetracking), usually the range is 24-32" and on an ultrawide the typical size is 34-35".... tobii decided to cut it at 24-27" and 30"?? on an ultrawide any experimental features in the software to go beyond the official size?

hola asta que tamaños de monitores sirve ???

The problem I have with eye trackers and head trackers is the way you hold your head while using it. This will result in next strain eventually. For the price of the tracker at 250 dollars you are only 100 dollars away from buying a VR headset, which is a much better experience.

sir what is tobil eye tracker

sooo useless, moving the head and destroying the eyes to look around. never understand, why ppl using this headtracking crap