IR Safety

The cameras use Infrared LEDs to illuminate the room and filters to exclude visible light, primarily for retroreflective surfaces to appear bright in the image while keeping background illumination minimal.
Infrared light (IR) can be harmful to the eyes, and thus it is important to know how and when IR light can cause damage. Please inform yourself first while we work out official safety recommendations and guidelines.
In general, we rely on the fact that short, but intense pulses of IR light pose the same danger as a continuous IR source with the same average power output. That means, we can maximise the strength of the pulse while minimising the exposure duration for optimal isolation from other IR sources.
However, that also means that the hardware is theoretically capable of light output that might be harmful to your eyes, and is only limited by the power regulators and the firmware. The regulators are not designed to limit it to a safe power level, and the firmware limitations can not be guaranteed to be safe either before further testing with exact, final hardware.
It is thus your responsibility to limit the maximum exposure times for the exact hardware you are using that still allows for safe use, until we work out official safety guidelines for official hardware. Until then, be cautious.