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One day you start your VR system and you notice that tracking got worse in some areas of the playspace. You check SteamVR and see that one of the base stations is not tracking. You peek at a base station and see a blinking red light. OH NO! If you still have the base station…

During spring, when everyone already thought that WMR platform is dead and we are not going to see VR headsets using WMR tech ever again, HP has announced Reverb G2 – a device built in collaboration with Microsoft and… Valve. Last one was quite unexpected, since Vale has its own VR tracking system – SteamVR.…

This article will dive deep into explaining how the SteamVR tracking technology works and will show how tracking point placement affects HMD’s behaviour. I’ve also analyzed all consumer devices that rely on SteamVR tracking. SteamVR tracking SteamVR tracking system (don’t mix it with the SteamVR software) is based on one or more base stations that…

If you have ever wondered what is inside Valve Index, you might have stumbled upon my reddit post from 2019. I’ve decided to dive into the details of what makes Valve Index great and share my thoughts on tech inside. Teardown should begin from the simplest parts – remove the face mask (held by just magnets),…

The first feeling you get when you put on the Pico Neo 2 headset – this is what I hope to get from the Quest 2. It’s not just the lack of screen door effect, or slightly bigger field of view. It is an overall feeling of balance between all the desired features. Would I…

First impression which you get when you put on Pimax Vision 8k Plus – wow, now this is a good Pimax headset that can be recommended. And indeed it has multiple improvements that make it a much desired device, compared to my Pimax 5k Plus that I got from Kickstarter last year. Comfort It is…

When I heard about the first VR headset from Huawei the size of the normal sunglasses, with capability to work from a phone or a PC and with a SteamVR support from ScarredGhost article, I was excited. Finally we are moving towards consumer devices that do not repel people just from their looks. Unfortunately this…

StarVR is one of the most desirable VR headsets on the market. Partially, it is because we know the team behind it managed to fit 210 degrees of horizontal FOV (Field of View) in a device that is much smaller than Pimax and XTAL headsets. But mostly, because we don’t know much about it. How…