Virtual reality offers a unique way to experience video games, transporting players to different worlds and continuing to blur the line between gaming and reality. The technology isn’t for everyone, however. Traditional displays still deliver fantastic gaming experiences, and with the addition of Tobii’s Eye Tracker, games can feel just as lifelike without the need to wear a bulky headset.
By setting up a Tobii Eye Tracker for use with your PC, you can control certain aspects of your favorite games — and occasionally entire games — with nothing more than your gaze. This can create stronger emotional bonds between you and the in-game characters, streamline clunky control schemes, and breathe new life into older games.
A few features of the Tobii Eye Tracker are common across several supported games. Aiming or controlling the camera with your eyes, often called “Aim at gaze,” is seen on a number of third-person and first-person shooters, as is “Extended View,” which pans out the camera when your eyes hit the edge of the screen. A third feature, “Clean UI,” hides the majority of on-screen information until you stare at a particular piece, such as a health bar or map. Below, we’ve created a table listing all the games that use Tobii technology, as well as the features you can expect to use in them.
Game | Aim with eyes | “Extended View” | “Clean UI” | Special Features |
7 Days to Die | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Agents of Mayhem | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dynamic light. Environmental awareness. |
Amphora | Yes | Yes | No | Affect environment with a glance. Light effects “highlight your focal point.” |
Arma 2 | No | Yes | No | |
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead | No | Yes | No | |
Arma 3 | No | Yes | No | |
Assassin’s Creed Origins |
Yes | No | Enemy targeting, interaction, “dynamic light.” | |
Assassin’s Creed Rogue | No | No | No | Direct movement with eyes, pause by looking away. |
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate | Yes | Yes | Yes | Character adapts to light based on your gaze. |
Battle of Sol | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Beatshot | Yes | No | No | Not only “aim at gaze,” but “fire at gaze.” |
Blind Love | No | No | No | Control character with gaze. |
Clustertruck | No | Yes | No | |
Coffin Dodgers | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Creativerse | No | Yes | Yes | |
DayZ | No | Yes | No | |
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided | Yes | Yes | Yes | Interact, use abilities, and enter cover at gaze. Open inventory at gaze. |
Diluvion | No | Yes | Yes | |
Distance | No | Yes | No | |
Dogos | Yes | No | Yes | |
Dungeons 2 | No | No | No | Center at gaze. |
Dying Light: The Following — Enhanced Edition | Yes | Yes | Yes | Zombies become aware when looking at them. Interact and sprint at gaze. |
Elite: Dangerous | No | Yes | No | Head posing. |
Euro Truck Simulator 2 | No | Yes | No | |
Event [0] | No | Yes | No | |
Eye Tracked Paintings | No | No | No | “Events” trigger in peripheral vision. |
Eyeron Defender | Yes | No | No | |
F1 2017 | No | Yes | Yes | |
Farming Simulator 15 | No | Yes | No | |
Farming Simulator 17 | No | Yes | No | |
Fast Sight | No | No | No | Interact with environment using eyes. |
For Honor | No | Yes | No | |
FortressCraft Evolved | No | Yes | No | |
Glimpse of Fear | Yes | No | No | Interact with environment using eyes. |
Grab Your Eyes | No | No | No | Mini-game collection. All controlled with eyes. |
Gunfleet | No | Yes | Yes | |
Hitman | Yes | Yes | Yes | “Instinct at gaze.” |
Iron Front Liberation 1944 | No | No | No | |
Knee Deep | No | No | No | Select objects with eyes. “Big Brother” eyeball tracks your gaze. |
Leaving Lyndow | No | Yes | No | |
Lifeless Planet | No | Yes | No | |
Master of Orion | Yes | Yes | No | Faster gamepad navigation. |
Mechrunner | Yes | No | Yes | |
Megaton Rainfall | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Microsoft Flight Simulator X | Yes | No | No | |
Ori and the Blind Forest | No | Yes | Interact with gaze, “dynamic light.” | |
Pavilion | No | Yes | No | Interact with objects using eyes. |
Pollen | No | Yes | No | Eyes affect environment. |
Prepar3d | Yes | No | No | |
Project Root | Yes | No | No | |
Reflections | No | Yes | No | Interact with objects using eyes. Gaze triggers response from characters. “Dynamic depth of field.” |
Rise of the Tomb Raider | Yes | Yes | Yes | Head posing. Highlight and throw with gaze. |
Salt | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Serious Sam 3: BFE | Yes | Yes | Yes | Interact with gaze, “dynamic light,” flashlight control. |
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter | Yes | Yes | Yes | Interact with gaze, “dynamic light,” flashlight control. |
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter | Yes | Yes | Yes | Interact with gaze, “dynamic light,” flashlight control. |
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun | Yes | No | No | Interact with UI and characters, center, and place marker with eyes. |
Shelter 2 | Yes | Yes | No | Cubs respond to eye contact. Direct movement with eyes. |
Slime Rancher | No | Yes | Yes | |
SOMA | Yes | Yes | No | “Environmental awareness.” Zoom and affect AI with gaze. Control flashlight with eyes. |
Son of Nor | Yes | No | No | Transform environment using eyes. |
Spectrophobia | Yes | No | No | Symbols react to your gaze. |
Sublevel Zero Redux | No | Yes | No | |
Steep | No | Yes | Yes | |
Take on Helicopters | Yes | No | No | |
Thea: The Awakening | No | No | No | Center at gaze. |
The Channeler | Yes | No | No | |
The Forest | No | Yes | Yes | |
The Hunter | Yes | Yes | No | |
The Hunter: Primal | No | Yes | No | |
The Hunter: Call of the Wild | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
The Solus Project | No | No | No | Interact with environment using eyes. “Dynamic depth of field.” “Sixth sense” ability. |
Through the Wood | No | Yes | No | |
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands | Yes | Yes | Yes | Open communications wheel with eyes. Pause by looking away. |
Tom Clancy’s The Division | Yes | Yes | Yes | Use grenades, enter cover, and tag enemies with eyes. Mark spot on map with eyes. |
Unturned | Yes | Yes | No | |
Valley | No | Yes | No | |
Volcanic Fields 2 | Yes | No | No | |
Watch Dogs 2 | Yes | Yes | No | Enter cover and hack with eyes. |
Update: Added several games including Serious Sam 3, Megaton Rainfall, and Ori and the Blind Forest.