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We want Pupil to proliferate! We want you to use Pupil to empower and inspire whatever you do. Be it commercial work, academic research, teaching, art or personally motivated projects.

For noncommercial use, the software is open and the hardware accessible and modifiable. We want you to be a member of the Pupil community and contribute as much as possible. We encourage the modification of software and hardware in accordance to the open source license.

Software

All source code written by us is open source for noncommercial uses as specified in our CC BY-NC-SA license. We encourage you to change and improve the code. We require that you will share your work with the Pupil community.

The actual frame of the Pupil headset is not open-source and distributed via Shapeways and direct sales. We do this for a few reasons:

• The printed geometry is not the actual CAD file. It is the result of a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulation that is exported as a triangle mesh. The CAD file itself is useless because the headset does not fit well without the FEA step. The FEA is useless because it is hard to properly manipulate in a CAD environment.
• The entire design is based on the material properties of laser sintered nylon (what Shapeways calls "strong and flexible"). This is what allows the headset to be so light, flexible, and strong. Unless you own an EOS SLS machine, Shapeways will always outperform the field in terms of price. In other words: The headset does not make any sense in another material and the material/manufacturing is expensive when you buy it from somewhere other than Shapeways.

We take a markup fee for every headset to finance the Pupil project. This fee supports open source development, so that you can continue to get software for free!

If you have ideas and suggestions for improvements on the actual frame of the headset we are happy to collaborate closely on improvements. Contact us.

Documentation

All content of the documentation written by us is open source, according to CC BY-NC-SA license.

Using Pupil in Your Research and Projects

You can use Pupil in your noncommercial research, academic work, art projects and personal work. We only ask you to credit us appropriately. See Academic Citation for samples.

Pupil is developed and maintained by Moritz Kassner & William Patera. If you make a contribution to open source, we will include your name in our Contributors page. For more information about the people behind the project, check out Pupil Labs.

Using Pupil Commercially

If you plan to use Pupil in a commercial context contact us so we can work out an appropriate license with you. Send an email to us at [email protected]