has revealed a wrist tracker for its . The gadget is 85 p.c smaller and 50 p.c lighter than the Vive Focus 3 controller.

The model says the wearable can observe your arm from fingertips to elbow. The Focus 3’s cameras can monitor LEDs for standalone monitoring. As such, attaching the Wrist Tracker to an object permits the headset to trace it with six levels of freedom.

With the assistance of high-frequency IMU (inertial measurement unit) information and a sophisticated kinematic mannequin, Focus 3 will nonetheless know the precise place of your hand and wrist when the tracker is not within the cameras’ line of sight. It can predict your pose too, so if you happen to, as an example, attain behind your head with a tennis racket to play a smash shot, the headset ought to nonetheless have a good suggestion of what you are doing.

The Vive Wrist Tracker can be launched in early 2022, beginning within the US. It prices $129/€129/£119. HTC Vive additionally revealed new equipment for the Focus 3, together with a multi battery charger and charging case, partly to cut back downtime between classes.

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