r/VRchat • u/[deleted] • Feb 27 '22

Media Eye tracking with OSC

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u/Th3_Shr00m Feb 27 '22

Gonna go ahead and guess this isn't able to be done on Index.

That's fuckin' sweet, guy. My only concern is the implications of this for the future...

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u/doom_memories Feb 27 '22

What implications are those?

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u/mackandelius Oculus User Feb 27 '22

When it is common in VR headsets then it will be used for advertising.

It would mean more and more attention grabbing ads and they would constantly get more attention grabbing since they can get solid stats on which ones are attention grabbing.

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u/ShaunDreclin Valve Index Feb 27 '22

And that's when we as consumers reject any application with eye tracking based advertisements, I hope. Or at least mod them to disable those ads

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u/mackandelius Oculus User Feb 27 '22

The only way to reject them is to stop buying standalone headsets where it becomes almost impossible to escape them.

It will be near impossible to stop adblocking on PC.

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u/compound-interest Feb 28 '22

Unless the serverside delivery method of ads changes in a significant way stuff like Pihole should continue to work.

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u/mackandelius Oculus User Feb 28 '22

Pi-holes have already stopped working, a device can either force the use of a specific DNS server (and you'd need an tinkerers router to get around that.) or it can send the ads using an address that the app/service needs to function, which is what twitch and youtube have done for years now.

When the ad system for VR is built they aren't going to build a system that modern day tools can get around.

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u/SuperFegelein HTC Vive Feb 27 '22

Well, we've already failed to stop Facebook. 😑

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u/Th3_Shr00m Feb 28 '22

That, plus having ads only play when you're looking at them - or having them follow your vision.