Where a rider is looking while riding

darkie

darkie

Dylan Code
These are video clips of a rider wearing gaze tracking glasses while riding. The glasses track the movements of the pupils and is overlaid on video showing what the person is looking at. The circle moving in the frame indicates where the rider was looking. An experienced rider was chosen, who was wearing a backpack containing a laptop to record all the data. Additionally an open-faced helmet was used, as the special glasses would not fit inside a normal full-faced helmet. Wind and vibration cause the tracking to jump around, however a general sense of where this rider was looking is achieved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gNbuMQTRaU
 
budman

budman

General Menace
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That was interesting. Even though the speeds were not huge he still got his eyesight well out in front a lot of the time.

The bounce to the apex was a familiar feeling.

I would like to see this applied on the big track where the drastic ahead to the apex etc. eye movements might be really interesting. The total disappearance of the motorcycle would not doubt be more telling as well.

Thanks for sharing D!
 
NSR500

NSR500

すけべ
That's awesome. Even at slow speeds when I'm riding I try to work on my visual acquisition/picture like that.
I'd like to see that system put on a MotoGP rider.
 
anytwowilldo

anytwowilldo

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In the corners he was looking exactly where I thought he would be, but he never looked as far down the track in the straights as I would have.
 
Toast

Toast

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Karbon said:
Im curious to know how that dot moves with the average cager.
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Like this
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clutchslip

clutchslip

Not as fast as I look.
More important than where your eyes look, is what you see. As we know, drivers can look right at us and not see a motorcycle. There are techniques to increase your mental awareness of what your eyes actually see. Learning to understand your peripheral visions will diminish the importance of where the center of your pupil is focused.
 
budman

budman

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I thought above this after my ride today.

Mt. Hamilton over to Mines to Libmo to Calaveras to whatever left Kurt said to take.
Street riding would be an interesting take on this technology.

Conditions today included damp, exquisite, gravely, slippery because it's rough, slightly greasy and glorious.

My eyes spent a bit more time closer to my path of travel analyzing traction than in this video. Also given you have a short range of vision a lot of the time you cannot be analyzing a turn or even two ahead like when your at the track. Unless your butch and have the road memorized.
 
ZCrow

ZCrow

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That would be a great feedback, training tool. I wonder how hard that would be to setup?
 
Honey Badger

Honey Badger

...iz a girl
I felt like his eyes weren't bouncing far enough ahead very often - granted, speeds were slow so maybe that was part of it, but it felt like vision stayed a little too close a little too often.

Watching it made me think about where my eyes tend to linger sometimes, I think even watching this helps us raise awareness of our own habits.
 
Karbon

Karbon

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I'm guessing the camera view is not completely accurate of his actual field of view, and the camera is actually pointed down a bit.
 
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