HTC Vive Tracker
HTC Opens Pre-orders for ‘Mars CamTrack’ Virtual Production Box
HTC teased a new Vive product last week which aims to leverage the company's Vive Trackers for virtual productions. Called Vive Mars CamTrack, the box is appealing to filmmakers looking for an easy way of integrating Vive Trackers into...
Toyota’s New Experimental Humanoid Robot Uses HTC Vive for Remote Operation
Toyota recently revealed T-HR3, the company’s third-generation humanoid robot. Designed primarily as an experiment to explore new technologies to make robots more physically capable, T-HR3 demonstrates a new "remote maneuvering system" that not only mirrors a user's movements to...
HTC Announces Consumer Availability of Vive Tracker & New Tracker Accessory Bundles
HTC today announced consumer availability of Vive Tracker, the tracking module that uses Valve's Lighthouse tracking standard. The company also announced North American pre-order availability of a number of Vive Tracker accessory bundles that are slated to make their way to consumers in mid-December.
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HTC Lists Sports Racket Accessory for Vive Tracker, Suggesting Tracker Launch is Near
A 'Racket Sports Set' designed to be compatible with HTC Vive's Tracker, the modular positionally-tracked puck that you can use to track practically anything in VR, has just made an appearance on the Vive accessories site. The Tracker has only been available for...
Logitech Using Vive Tracker to Bring Your Keyboard and Hands Into VR for Efficient Typing
Logitech is creating a new system called BRIDGE which aims to make it possible to bring a properly tracked keyboard into VR while showing the user's hands for accurate typing. Though retail plans haven't yet been announced, the company...
Vive Tracker Used to Create Pressure Sensitive Photoshop Stylus for VR
Developer Jimmy Gray recently posted a short video (see above), showing the latest version of a DIY motion-tracked VR stylus prototype. Using an HTC Vive Tracker mounted above a stylus-shaped unit, a VR stylus can be tracked and rendered, usable...
‘Tilt Brush’ Devs Hack Together Virtual Potter’s Wheel with Vive Tracker
A novel use of a single Vive Tracker is to stick it to a rotating platform in order to create a virtual potter’s wheel. Patrick Hackett, co-creator of Tilt Brush, tweeted a short clip of the tracker in action as...
‘Tornuffalo’ Shows What Full-body VR Gaming Could Look Like with Vive Trackers
Using HTC’s Vive Trackers, Tornuffalo—named after a combination of 'tornado' and 'buffalo'—has been given a 'Full-Body Action' mode, an early example of full body tracking in a VR gameplay scenario. This simple action game involves dodging flying debris (which...
