Feature List

Graphical User Interface ¶

• Modern Ribbon GUI
• Visual scenario designer
• WYSIWYG scene editor
• Integrated material library
• Flexible randomization designer
• Resolution-independent layout
• Multiple visual coordinate systems
• Automatic pixel-vis.degree conversion
• Customizable modular architecture
• SDK for user extensions
• Experiment templates and demos for popular paradigms. e.g. MOT
  

Scripting¶

• The world simplest scripting approach
• No necessity to learn new functions
• Plugable scripting languages
• 100% Matlab interoperability
• Event-driven code architecture
• Flat control flow
• Advanced code editor with syntax highlighting and code completion
• High-speed code execution, alike C++
• Code navigation and selective search
• Runtime debugging tools
  

Run-time ¶

• Sub-millisecond timing precision
• Automatic audit of timing accuracy
• Protected data collection
• Various data export options
• Gamma correction
• Customizable and interactive status screen on the second monitor
• Implemented psychophysical methods (e.g. staircase procedure)
• Real-time behaviour monitoring (e.g. gaze marker over stimulus)
• Online statistics and plots
  

2D Graphics ¶

• State-of-art rendering engine
• Rich vector graphics with XAML scripts
• Layered visual scene composition with opacity masks, alike Photoshop
• Support for popular bitmap formats
• Support for SVG vector format
• Accelerated visual transforms: scale, rotation, transition and visual effects
• Built-in stimulus generators
• Fixed-time animation
• GDI+ programmable drawing functions
• Visual illusion toolkit
  

3D Graphics ¶

• Accelerated 3D graphics engine
• Rendering complex 3D scenes
• Programmable scene changes and 3D animation
• Code-based control of lightings, cameras and materials
• Import of popular 3D file formats
• In-built scene editor
  

Sound and Video ¶

• Selection of audio playback engines
• Precise onset of audio playback (<3ms)
• Support for popular audio formats: wav, mp3 and MIDI
• Parallel playback of video clips in all formats
• Audit of audio timing and video frames
• Online speech recognition and voice recording
• Readout of MIDI devices (e.g. el. pianos) for taping and music experiments
• Real-time text-to-speech synthesis
  

Hardware ¶

• Bi-directional synchronization via LPT, COM, USB, network and DAQ cards
• Support for MC, NI and Arduino DAQ cards
• Support for a broad range of HID devices (joysticks, response boxes)
• Parallel access to input devices (e.g. multiple keyboards and mice)
• Support of all Cedrus devices, e.g. Lumina
• Handwriting recognition and drawing with a touch screen, mouse or pen tablet
• Seamless integration of new hardware
  

Eye-tracking ¶

• Support of popular eye-trackers: Tobii, EyeLink, SMI, Arrington, Jazz-Novo, ISCAN, Mirametrix, GazePoint, EyeTribe
• Support of analog DAQ eye-trackers
• Templates for standard eye-tracking tasks
• Lossless gaze tracking and sampling
• Fully customizable calibration
• Real-time saccade&fixation detection
• Online analysis with AOIs, heatmaps, scanpathes
• Eye-tracking on live websites
• Customizable data logging
  

Signal Processing ¶

• Real-time multi-channel signal acquisition
• Support for popular bioamplifiers
• Online band-pass filtering
• Online PSD analysis
• Online signal plotting
• Signal forecasting and pattern detection
• Phase-locked stimulus presentation
• Reatime neurofeedback control in experiments
• Rich framework for mental games and applications
  

Motion Capture ¶

• Support for low-cost sensors Kinect & Leap Motion for real-time 3D tracking
• Body tracking up to 2 persons
• Tracking of a 3D head position, pose and head vector
• Calibrated finger-to-screen tracking
• Gesture recognition
• Reliable face capture with 100 3D key-points
• Consistent sampling rates (up to 20Hz) with a low processor load