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The Zero-Millisecond Gaze Tracker Read the Wrong Clock

An open browser benchmark pairs inference with each frame's capture time instead of timestamping only when the result appears.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-13-018
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Summary

An open browser benchmark pairs inference with each frame's capture time instead of timestamping only when the result appears.

Emission-time timestamps can report nearly zero latency regardless of a webcam gaze engine's actual delay. The released TypeScript method recovers capture or presentation time and pairs frames through a queue, yielding exact latency or a documented lower bound.

Why it matters

An open browser benchmark pairs inference with each frame's capture time instead of timestamping only when the result appears.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. An open browser benchmark pairs inference with each frame's capture time instead of timestamping only when the result appears.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-13-020

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.11566arXiv · primary research

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