SteamVR Tracking 2 Coming To Developers This Fall, Brings Larger Tracking Volumes, Vive Not Supported

[kcarbotte]

Valve revealed surprising new details about the upcoming revision to Steam’s VR tracking technology. SteamVR Tracking 2.0 supports more than two basestations, but you need hardware with new sensors to use them.

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[Jeff Fx]

>Surprisingly, the new basestations are not compatible with existing sensors, which leaves the HTC Vive high and dry.

That's very annoying. Now I'll have to wait until my Vive either fails, or is totally-obsolete, before I upgrade lighthouses.

 

[zambutu]

so current Vive owners were hoping that they could upgrade to the Vive gen 2 headset (only) down the road and just use their existing base stations and peripherals?

 

[Jeff Fx]

so current Vive owners were hoping that they could upgrade to the Vive gen 2 headset (only) down the road and just use their existing base stations and peripherals?

That's something we may be able to do, since the new headsets work with the old lighthouses.
The problem is that we can't use the existing headsets with the new lighthouses. I'd like to have tracking in several areas that would work with my existing headset and with new headsets.