Meta has no interest in making motion trackers for Quest
Unless Pico is very successful with its motion trackers, Meta has no interest in developing a similar product for Quest.
In a recent Q&A on Instagram, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth was asked if Meta was working on motion trackers for Meta Quest. He denied it, saying that Pico would have to be successful with its devices before Meta would consider a similar product.
Here is his full answer:
"No. Those Pico trackers seem cool, and I think it's fun that they're doing that. I haven't had a chance to play with any of the new stuff out of there, but it's great to see people continuing to push and innovate and try different things.
I think there's just not that many use cases where people need that high of a degree of precision on extremities. It's not zero, if you're a dance enthusiast in VRChat and you want to show off those moves, it's great. I'm glad people have a chance to do that, and they have a path for that.
But for getting these things to be mainstream where we make this something that way more people use, I'm not sure that the juice is worth the squeeze. And I don't mean that from a business standpoint, I mean even for the consumer in terms of what they get out of it. I hope it goes so well for them, and they prove me wrong, and then we'll have to do it."
What are the Pico Motion Trackers?
The Pico 4 Ultra and Pico Motion Trackers, which support the Pico 4 Ultra, Pico 4 and Pico Neo 3, will be available on September 20 in Europe and a handful of other countries, but not in the US.
While we had mixed feelings about the headset in our Pico 4 Ultra review, Pico Motion Trackers left are a very good first impression. Josef had a lot of fun with the VR accessories that attach to the ankles and bring the legs into virtual reality. The motion trackers are small, lightweight, and quick to calibrate, and will be supported by 20 VR games at launch. The accessory can also be used with PC VR games such as VRChat.
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