Whereas their fundamental position is leg monitoring, Pico Movement Trackers can be used for object monitoring.
Pico Movement Trackers come as a pair with ankle straps for £80 within the UK and €90 in Europe, designed to permit you to simply add leg monitoring to Pico 4 Extremely, Pico 4, and Pico Neo 3 in apps like VRChat and shortly Blade & Sorcery: Nomad. However the trackers can be strapped to things too, and might even be simply indifferent from their ankle strap cradles for customized options.
That is attainable as a result of not like different low-cost trackers comparable to Sony’s Mocopi, Pico Movement Trackers have 12 infrared LEDs every, that are 6DoF positionally tracked by the headset. They’re primarily mini VR controllers with out the buttons, thumbstick, and triggers.
ByteDance says Pico object monitoring might be used for held objects like desk tennis paddles, baseball bats, and bows, significantly helpful for location-based leisure (LBE) venues, or simply connected to your wrists to extend the standard of hand monitoring.
HTC has an identical product, Vive Wrist Tracker, which can be used for customized tracked objects. However a singular function of Pico Movement Trackers permits a lot deeper integrations.
The USB-C port of Pico Movement Trackers will not be just for charging, however can also be an information port which builders can entry to go by knowledge from connected units. This allows fully customized tracked controllers with buttons, triggers, sticks, and even haptics, with positional monitoring dealt with by the connected Pico Movement Tracker. For instance, an LBE venue may create a rifle with a set off and haptic motor and fasten a Pico Movement Tracker, or a enterprise may connect one to a stylus and go by its tip strain state.
One limitation is that object monitoring and leg monitoring cannot be used collectively. You both have the trackers in your ankles, or you’ve them connected to arbitrary objects, however not each on the identical time.
Nonetheless, the flexibility to construct customized tracked objects with USB-C knowledge handed by for a comparatively low value, and with out base stations, is a big milestone for the business, and may decrease the price of customized tracked object options in each the LBE and enterprise markets.
