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 |
6th 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), |
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 |
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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.
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 10.15 |
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 |
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 |
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