Sony's Dirty Little Secret

[kevinw729]

Sony JP rush to patent their 'Lighthouse' style new tracking system - in order to address serious issues with PSVR and growing returns:

[Percy1983]

Thats fair enough as an opinion, in my case it was easier to find another USB port than another mains socket, if I had the viv and had to mount the other sensor behind it would lead to extending power cables approx 15m.

[chtan]

There are some talking about light house running on battery pack. Problem solved.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/42271m/lighthouses_running_from_battery_for_hours_and/

[kevinw729]

http://uploadvr.com/new-patent-suggests-sony-working-vive-like-tracking-psvr/

For those that wanted more info on the Sony Patent... oh and a big hi to whoever at UploadVR that monitored this discussion 😉

[JaimieVandenber]

Stuff gets patented all the time and never makes it to market. We'd have flying cars, perpetual-motion free energy and transparent credit-card size phones by now if they did.

On top of which, as I've consistently said the PSVR tracking works ridiculously well for the bodged up low-res solution that they've put in place. Even Move space tracking is good - it's the angle tracking from the shitty old accelerometers that's not, and Tumble succesfully coaxes competence out of them even then.

I'm not seeing any groundswell of returns for tracking, only disappointment about resolution. Is this a complete non-story?

[kevinw729]

JaimieVandenbergh said:

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Is this a complete non-story?

More a Discussion Topic, I think you will find! 😉

[jab]

Percy1983 said:

Personally I would rather have low voltage USB extensions around my room compared the high voltage mains extensions I would need for the light houses.

I don't know about you. but where I live for sure the electric wall sockets are more common then USB ones..

[kevinw729]

We are one year away from "transmitted power"!

[Percy1983]

jab said:

Percy1983 said:

Personally I would rather have low voltage USB extensions around my room compared the high voltage mains extensions I would need for the light houses.

I don't know about you. but where I live for sure the electric wall sockets are more common then USB ones..

In my bat cave there is more USB ports than wall sockets and they are all that far a part, so for a rear camera/lighthouse I would need to extend usb/power at very similar lengths.

As above neither method is perfect and which is better/worse involves many factors so neither can be universally better/worse.

[Anonymous]

Percy1983 said:

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As above neither method is perfect and which is better/worse involves many factors so neither can be universally better/worse.

Although I suppose that extending power has fewer issues with interference, attenuation and possibly even lag.

[danknugz]

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