HTC's Vive Tracker adds much-needed tactile control to VR

HTC's Vive Tracker adds much-needed tactile control to VR

8 years ago
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/htc-apos-vive-tracker-adds-140000523.html

Virtual Sports. The two accessories gave me flashbacks to a decade ago, when you couldn't walk into a game store without seeing a pile of cheap plastic tennis racket and golf club shells for your Wiimote. Thankfully, the Vive Tracker peripherals are solid and hefty, and once I put on the Vive headset I couldn't tell the difference between a real paddle and the accessory I held in my hand." data-reactid="21">The other major peripherals available at launch are a tennis racket and a ping pong paddle, packaged together in a bundle with the tracker and the game Virtual Sports. The two accessories gave me flashbacks to a decade ago, when you couldn't walk into a game store without seeing a pile of cheap plastic tennis racket and golf club shells for your Wiimote. Thankfully, the Vive Tracker peripherals are solid and hefty, and once I put on the Vive headset I couldn't tell the difference between a real paddle and the accessory I held in my hand.

I played a quick round of table tennis and found myself turning and flipping it in my hand to get spin on the ball. The experience was immersive enough that once I finished playing, I tried to put the "paddle" down on the "table," forgetting that there was nothing actually there. But if I had actually dropped it on the floor, the build of both the accessory and the tracker itself seem sturdy enough to survive the fall.