System Requirements for Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Software

Tobii Pro Lab and Tobii Pro Studio have been designed for research purposes. Therefore, you need to exercise tight control over your operating system and hardware to ensure good performance during stimulus presentation and recording. If you comply with our system recommendations, you can run and analyze most types of experiments with ease and good performance. You secure the performance by running our software on a dedicated eye-tracking computer that is free from all third-party applications.

Tobii Pro Lab and Tobii Pro Studio routinely perform very demanding calculations, so execution of some operations may take a lot of time, for example, calculating metrics for large projects, encoding exported videos, and running Real-World Mapping.

Component	Required specification	Important notes
CPU***	Intel Quad Core i5 3.0 GHz	6^th generation or later
RAM	16 GB
Hard disk	SSD	256 GB or more is recommended
Graphics card*	Dedicated Nvidia card	Nvidia Quadro series, minimum 2GB dedicated graphics RAM; released in 2015 or later
Monitor	1920 x 1080 resolution	DVI, HDMI or DisplayPort connector
Operating system	Windows 10	64 bit, Professional or Enterprise
Parallel port for sending TTL-signals**	StarTech PEX1P, Manhattan PCI 158176, Digitus DS-30020-1	Even though sending TTL-signals should work with most parallel port cards, USB-to-Parallel-port adapters are normally designed for printers only and therefore they cannot send TTL-signals
Web browsers*	Firefox (Version 40-42 and 44-46, 32bit), Internet Explorer 11	Chrome is not supported
User camera*(for recording participants during experiments)	Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920
Scene camera (for setups without screen)	Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920
Video capture card* (for external video setups, e.g. when a device other than a Tobii Pro Studio computer is used to present stimuli)	Datapath® Vision RGB-E1S®	DVI-I connector

* Tobii Pro Studio only
** Tobii Pro Lab only
*** The X3-120 eye tracker, when used without external processing unit (EPU), requires an Intel Quad Core i7 3.0 GHz CPU or higher and a powered USB 3.0 port.

Specific requirements for Tobii Pro Lab VR 360

When you make VR 360 recordings, you need a VR-ready computer. Our recommended graphics card for Tobii Pro Lab VR 360 is NVIDIA GTX1060 or greater. A HDMI connector for the HMD is also required.
Note! Never use NVIDIA GTX 1060 with Tobii Pro Studio.

System Recommendations – Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Manager

Component	Windows	Linux	Mac
Operating system	Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 (32 bit & 64 bit) Professional or Enterprise	Linux Ubuntu 18.04 (64 bit)	Mac OS Mojave 10.14
CPU	Intel Quad Core i5 3.0 GHz	Intel Celeron 700 MHz	Intel Quad Core i5 3.0 GHz
RAM	2 GB	512 MB	8 GB

System Recommendations – Tobii Pro Glasses Controller

Component
Operating system	Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 (32 bit and 64 bit) Professional or Enterprise
CPU	Intel Core i5
Resolution	1024 ×768
RAM	2 GB

Additional recommendations

You avoid interference from other machines in the same network and negative timing effects by using a direct connection between your computer and the Tobii Pro eye tracker. Don't use extension cables, USB hubs, adapters, etc.
If you have dual screen setups with the T60XL, use a wide screen with 1920 x 1200 resolution.
If you have a multiple-screen setup, always use "extend screen", never "duplicate screen".
If timing is a critical factor in your experiment, check the Timing Guide for Stimulus Display in Tobii Pro Lab and Timing Guide for Tobii eye trackers and Tobii Pro Studio.
The FAQ section of the Tobii Pro customer portal provides details on supported codec packs for Tobii Pro Lab and Tobii Pro Studio, and explains how to set the Windows power plan to High Performance.
If you run experiments that utilize other biometric measures in conjunction with eye tracking, check the system requirements of any attached third-party equipment.
Tobii Pro Lab, Tobii Pro Studio, and Tobii Pro Eye Tracker Manager require a laptop or desktop computer; tablets are not supported.
Tobii Pro Eye Tracker software requires full administrator rights and does not support roaming profiles.

Legal notice. The specifications above are not exhaustive and no rights can be derived from this document. The specifications may be changed without notice. All products and services by Tobii Pro are subject to our general terms and conditions.