When they were announced at CES 2017, HTC’s new Vive Trackers were said to be intended to give developers the ability to more easily turn ordinary objects into VR-trackable objects.
CloudGate Studio is a developer that’s already planning interesting ways to use the new trackers alongside standard HTC Vive controllers with its recent experiment into how they could make full-body tracking in VR a possibility.
The VR developer recently posted a video to Twitter depicting how it was working on using the Vive controllers to make a player’s whole body an active part of a VR world rather than just their head and hands.
By holding two controllers in his hands and strapping two to his feet, the company’s president and co-founder Steve Bowler was able to walk his full body through his demo creating what he called “a pretty good facsimile of a human body in VR”.
