Occipital launches low-cost AR/VR tracking platform for all-in-one headsets
Summary
Today, Occipital is showing off a tracking platform optimized for all-in-one headsets that will allow users to traverse spaces without external sensors using low-cost integrated cameras and IMUs. With this effort, the company is aiming to achieve SteamVR-level accuracy — currently the gold-standard in VR tracking — to inside-out system using the technologies its spent nearly the past decade working on. Occipital, which already sells a $349 depth sensing camera, acknowledges that in some ways it might be seen as “eating its own lunch,” but sees inside-out tracking on consumer devices as a future it wants to be a huge part of. What’s perhaps most notable is that they’re opening up their six-degree-of-freedom platform for free to hardware developers operating on less than 10,000 consumer devices, with pricing moving up from there for bigger clients. I demoed the software using a single-camera and IMU solution attached to the front of an HTC Vive, and, even without SteamVR base stations in the room, the cheap camera built up a point cloud of the space while defining the lines and edges of surfaces around me.
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