App Settings

This guide covers application settings in LookPilot. These settings affect how the application behaves and are separate from your tracking presets.

Interface

Found in Settings > Interface.

Language

• Choose your preferred interface language
• Restart required for changes to take effect

Camera

Found in Settings > Camera.

Camera Selection

• Select camera: Choose from available webcams
• Reload button (⟲): Refresh the camera list
• Resolution: Choose camera resolution
  • 1280x720 recommended for most setups
  • 640x480 for lower-end systems
  • 1920x1080 for high-end systems (may reduce camera FPS)
• Mirror camera: Flip the camera preview horizontally (doesn't affect tracking)

Tips:

• Position camera at eye level for best tracking
• Ensure good lighting on your face
• USB 3.0 cameras generally perform better than USB 2.0

Tracking

Found in Settings > Tracking.

Performance

Tracking FPS limit:

• Range: 5-240 FPS
• Default: 60 FPS
• Lower values reduce CPU usage but may impact smoothness
• Actual FPS also limited by your camera's capabilities

Head tracking mode:

• Static: Single-frame prediction
• Temporal (experimental): Uses LSTM for smoother tracking

Keybinds

Found in Settings > Keybinds. Here you can bind your mouse buttons / keyboard keys / joystick buttons to different actions.

System Keybinds

Center Tracking:

• Default: Ctrl+Space
• Resets your current head position as the neutral center

Toggle Tracking:

• Default: Not assigned
• Starts or stops head tracking

Setting Keybinds

1. Click in the keybind field
2. Press the desired key combination
3. Automatically saved

Good choices: Combinations with Ctrl, Alt, or Shift (e.g., Ctrl+Space, Alt+F1)

Avoid: Single letters/numbers that games use, common shortcuts (Ctrl+C, Alt+Tab)

Note: Preset keybinds are configured in the preset management window, not here. See the Presets guide for details.

Posture

Found in Settings > Posture (if posture monitoring is enabled).

Posture Monitoring

Enable posture monitoring:

• Monitor your head position and show warnings when your posture needs adjustment

Warning threshold:

• Distance below center position that triggers a warning (in cm)
• Higher values are more sensitive

Warning delay:

• How long to wait before showing a warning after bad posture is detected (in seconds)

Current Status

Displays your current head position and warning status.

Set Center Position

Use the "Set as center" button to set your current position as the reference for posture monitoring.

Privacy

Found in Settings > Privacy.

Send usage statistics:

• Default: Enabled
• Helps improve the app by sending anonymous usage data

Send gaze data:

• Default: Disabled
• Helps improve eye tracking models by sending anonymized gaze data