By Nick Pino
Look around you house. What do you see? You might have a broom in the kitchen or a baseball bat in the garage. You might have a garden hose outside or a toy gun in the closet.
All of these things, and literally anything else, could be your next HTC Vive controller – all thanks to a new device from HTC called the Vive Tracker.
The device was unveiled at a private HTC event at CES 2017 alongside the new Vive Deluxe Audio, a headband that offers similar functionality to Oculus Rift’s earpads, and the news that TPCAST, the device that enables tetherless gameplay, is leaving China and coming to the rest of the world in 2017.
It’s worth mentioning those products because, let’s face it, they’re new and novel. But both pale in comparison to what HTC is offering with the Vive Tracker.
After speaking with a half-dozen developers, the best comparison for the Tracker is an additional game console controller. By itself, it adds little to nothing to your setup. But get a friend involved – or, in this case, add a new object – and it’s a whole new ball game.
Of course, it’s not all up to …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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