Reducing eye strain and improving performance in headset device

Abstract

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for inducing eye blinks and aligning background tasks during eye blink durations in a headset device. In some aspects, a headset device may monitor or track eye blinks of a user of the headset device to determine whether to induce an eye blink. The headset device may determine whether the time elapsed since the last eye blink is greater than a time duration threshold. The headset device may modify display characteristics of the headset device to induce a subsequent eye blink if the time elapsed since the last eye blink is greater than the time duration threshold. In some aspects, the headset device may align the performance of one or more background tasks of the headset device during the blink durations of some or all of the eye blinks.