Now you can purchase the Logitech MX Ink tracked stylus for Quest headsets.
MX Ink helps Quest 3, Quest 3S, and Quest 2, and is the primary formally supported third-party tracked controller for an Oculus or Meta headset.
Logitech MX Ink is designed for each 2D drawing on a bodily floor by way of its pressure-sensitive tip and for 3D creativity by way of full 6DoF positional monitoring (by way of the headset cameras), a number of buttons, and a haptic suggestions actuator.
MX Ink
It pairs to the headset without having to unpair Contact controllers, which Meta says represents the primary time Quest headsets can observe three controllers directly. Meaning you may combine and match Contact controllers and MX Ink and swap between them at any time “with out interruptions”.
When it is paired for the primary time, you will be taken by way of a customized tutorial constructed into the Quest system software program, and a brand new part of the headset settings permits customizing stress curves for the nib and the first buttons, preliminary activation power, and double faucet timing.
MX Ink by itself prices by way of USB-C, and Logitech sells a dock referred to as MX Inkwell for extra handy charging.
The corporate additionally presents a mat with “easy texture that pairs nice with field nibs” for 2D creativity referred to as MX Mat.
MX Inkwell
MX Ink is supported within the following Quest apps:
- Arkio
- Interact
- Figmin XR
- Gesture VR
- Gravity Sketch
- HoloLight
- Immersed
- Open Brush
- Osso VR
- Portray VR
- ShapesXR
- Thrasher
- Vermillion
Moreover, MX Ink will probably be supported in Adobe Substance Modeler and Elucis by RealizeMedical, PC VR apps usable over Quest Hyperlink / Air Hyperlink.
Logitech has an SDK obtainable for different builders to combine it.
Logitech MX Ink is priced at $130, or $170 with the MX Inkwell dock. The MX Mat is on the market individually for $50.
That is truly Logitech’s second XR stylus. Again in 2019 it launched VR Ink for PC VR, which required SteamVR Monitoring base stations and price $750.
Apple has reportedly examined Apple Pencil Professional assist for Imaginative and prescient Professional, and if that occurs it may very well be the right accent for the headset. However Meta is getting there first by way of this partnership with Logitech.
