OGAMA vs RealEye

OGAMA is Windows freeware for recording and analyzing eye-tracking and mouse-tracking data in slideshow experiments. It supports direct recording with Tobii, alea and SMI systems, along with the open-source ITU Gazetracker solution. Gazetracker can use infrared-ready webcams or a modified PlayStationEye camera. OGAMA can also import ASCII recordings from eye-tracking and presentation software or hardware. Its analysis tools include database-driven preprocessing and filtering, attention maps, areas of interest, saliency calculations, Levenshtein distances, and replay with AVI recording. Output can be used directly with statistical software packages. OGAMA is an open-source project written in C#.NET, and users can adapt its code. The maintainer announced in May 2016 that they had stopped supporting the project because they no longer had time for support and feature requests.

RealEye is a cloud-based webcam eye-tracking research platform for building online studies, tracking participants, and analyzing results. Researchers can use images, videos, or live websites as stimuli, configure display settings, and add instructions and follow-up questions. The dashboard includes heatmaps, gaze and fixation analysis, Areas of Interest statistics, survey answers, and raw or processed data exports. A facial coding feature analyzes neutral, happy, and surprised expressions. External survey connections can redirect participants to services such as Qualtrics, Google Forms, or SurveyMonkey and pass participant identifiers through URL parameters. RealEye says webcam image and sound processing happens in the browser, and that it stores gaze-point predictions rather than webcam images or sound. It states that it is GDPR compliant and runs on AWS data centers in the United States. Participants using a researcher's own link need a laptop or PC with a webcam; smartphone tests are also offered. Basic costs $325 a month billed annually or $390 a month. Standard costs $825 a month billed annually or $990 a month.