Prophesee and Tobii Partner on Smart Eyewear

Prophesee, an event-based neuromorphic vision technology company, has partnered with Tobii, an eye tracking and attention computing company, to develop an event-based eye tracking solution for AR/VR and smart eyewear. Through the collaboration, the companies aim to develop a fast and power-efficient eye-tracking solution that is compact and battery-constrained smart eyewear, combines Tobii’s platform with Prophesee’s event-based sensor technology.

Tobii's experience in eye-tracking spans the development of advanced systems for a range of devices and platforms, including for gaming, extended reality, healthcare, and automotive. Prophesee’s technology is used in applications such as vision assistance, contextual awareness, enhanced user interaction, and well-being monitoring. Because the technology offers significant reductions in power consumption while maintaining ultrafast response times, the platform is well-suited for smart eyewear, in which power efficiency and a compact form factor are critical, according to the company.

Prophesee and Tobii previously partnered on Fotonation, which is now Tobii Autosense, a driver monitoring system. Prophesee has additionally collaborated on the release of IDS Imaging's uEye EVS camera line, earlier this year, as well as LUCID Vison Labs' Triton2 EVS camera, in 2024. Earlier this year Prophesee and advanced imaging company Eoptic partnered on integrating high-speed event detection into Eoptic’s prismatic sensor module.

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Published: May 2025

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