Attaching Vive Trackers to wine bottles, cups of tea, and doggos. All within the title of VR

I need to first level out that no animals have been harmed, in actual fact it was ostensibly all for their very own security… although I count on such experiments are by no means endorsed by HTC themselves. After chatting with HTC’s Graham Breen, about essentially the most sudden makes use of of the Vive Trackers, I used to be launched to the person accountable for partially wrapping his canine in clingfilm to securely strap a Tracker to it to ensure that the canine to look in his digital world.

The Vive Trackers themselves are impartial little gadgets you’ll be able to connect to real-world objects as a way to carry them into your digital actuality expertise. I had requested Graham Breen what the strangest makes use of of the Trackers have been that he’d seen.

“In our office we’ve attached one to a bottle of wine,” he responds. “So that’s us messing round, seeing what can we connect it to – so, there’s one in our workplace hooked up to a bottle of wine. Plenty of the others are issues that really feel logical, for instance Fruit Ninja with sword handles… that feels fairly pure.”

It makes complete sense and permits peripheral makers, and even the homebrew crowd, to shortly iterate on bespoke controllers for various VR video games with out large expense. The concept of strapping one to an actual membership for the Golf Club VR appears like an ideal concept. Well, till you shatter a lightbulb, make a complete in your wall, or pitch and putt your kitteh.

On leaving the AMD/HTC Gamescom sales space, saying goodbye to Vive’s VR content material guru, our Mr. Breen factors to a different gentleman on the stand.

“This is the man accountable for the VR wine bottle,” he says.

“Wine and tea,” says the Vive man who in all probability ought to stay anonymous, lest PETA get antsy. “It acts as a coaster fairly effectively.”

I clarify how I’d stick a Vive Tracker on my cat to keep away from a catastrophic kitteh-based VR catastrophe – resembling her creeping up on me whereas I am totally immersed in Fallout 4 VR and subsequently soiling myself.

“I used cling movie to wrap it round my canine as soon as,” he replies.

“I’m barely uncomfortable about that…” says Breen shortly

“…it’s better than tape, right?” Is the well-reasoned response.

I imply, how else is a doggo to put on a Tracker, except you make a particular harness for it? Try discovering certainly one of them in your native pet store.