The box moving/rotating with your dog is hilarious

Ever time you say "Hi I'm Brad" I imagine a rehab group respond "Hi Brad."

Crazy how well the index STILL holds up, even 4 years later. Genuinely my only 2 complaints with it were the displays and lenses, everything else was perfect. Main reason I'm so excited for the beyond.

Those real-items, square-shaped windows into the real world reminds me of the special effects of the personal shields in the first Dune movie.

Good stuff! Seems like Valve had a lot of plans for the Index cameras that never happened, could have been a great first mixed reality dev device

Someone I know has been tracking his drinks for quite a while now. His beer bottle has a 1:1 3D object indicating how full it is. Also makes that nice *clang* when you cheers with others. Want to get to know him?

Seeing your dog tracked looked just like the shields in the 1984 Dune movie!!! So cool!

Da puppy is SOOO CUUUUUTE!

Wow, great video, I definitively watched everything, even though the video was posted 2 minutes ago

Another awesome video Bradley!

Oh my god...a tracker on your drink sounds so insane..lol but fckn awesome imo

Was it now a first xr-tracked dog just there?

You say the Beer Tracker was the dumb one but honestly that's the number one thing I wish I had in VR. Even playing games, I wish I could just see where a drink I put down is.

Never knew i needed beer and dog tracking for VR but now i want it 😂

The beer finder is brilliant. #1 most needed vr feature

omg the wiggly box when your dog runs around is frickin adorable. And this overlay thing is awesome! And it's nice to see the Steam Controller being of use. I haven't used mine in forever, but I still love it.

Finger tracking itself could find this useful as well indeed. Much potential. And best part, the bigger the play space, the more potential it has. It’s self composing or something.

Nut tracker! Also I love what you did with the steam deck passthrough, so cool!

Beer Tracking, definitely the future! This is actually the opposite of what I thought you were going to show. I thought you were going to show VR objects in your actual room. But this makes more sense for you I can see.

What a treat, so many vids this week!

freaking cool!

This video is basically, "So like, what if, instead of *body* tracking, we did, like, *everything* tracking?"

Great show mate 👍

I like the outside the box thinking! Great work with the experimentation!

This is such a good video! Some really fun experiments!

Thanx, Brad. This is awesome, just bought it for my Valve Index. Keep this stuff coming, you are great.

Nice to see some love for the steam controller

Brilliant! I love the r/c car!

omg the dog strapped to tracker

This is indeed the right way to go learning to incorporate about new tech

TIL I'm obsessed and crazy, thanks, brad!

Definitely trying some of this out for my sim setup! Also, nice Yuru Camp shirt!

Its.. kinda brad

"This is the Valve Index" My surprise is non-existent and my day is made.

Next video: getting drunk in VR using beer tracking.

New tracked controller: A dog xD I heard someone mention pets when saying that Vive trackers can track anything, but that's the first time I see someone actually do that.

Very interesting stuff.

This is awesome! I always was bugged how Vive advertises you can "bring objects from the real world into the virtual universe" with their trackers, but there is just so little software support for anything other than body tracking. I hope to see object tracking get more creative and supported :)

This feels like watching an early prototype of products and concepts we might see in a few years. The dream would be, to be able to do this kind of tracking of objects without the need of attaching an expansive tracker to it. Makes me excited for what's to come - thanks Brad :)

The ability to drink a drink while in VR is why apple vision pro will succeed.

I had never heard of Reality Mixer. This might finally get me back into flight simming in VR!

Chookity!

Meta should leverage AI technology to scan and track real-world objects, and then integrate them into the VR environment using the new Quest-3 high-resolution color camera. This would allow users to interact with their real-world items while in VR. For instance, imagine playing poker in VR and being able to see and interact with your beer, or watching a movie in a VR environment like big screen vr and seeing your popcorn. You could even bring your Nintendo Switch into VR chat, or mark out your real-world TV so you can see it in your virtual room in VR chat world. This integration of real and virtual environments would significantly enhance the user experience in VR.

Valve index is still rly good, we just need higher resolution and be wireless. Hopefully no downgrades on sound, microphone or comfort.

Apparently Peanut committed warcrimes and is now stuck in the Phantom Zone with General Zod from Superman.

That ws jaw dropping

The Index really was way ahead of it's time in terms of capabilities. My only complaints now are it's bulk, the heat, the lenses, and the display. Really wish it was M-OLED rather than LCD. :(

LMBO!!!!! The tracker on the dog!!!!

Shooting laser beams into your eyes sounds terrifying.

Super cool. I'd imagine in the future you might spend time before you enter the game/chat to assist AI in identifying specific items that might transfer into VR. You either record a 3D model, or you ensure that an AI can identify a can/keyboard/dog. You might have a choice to re-render the items in polygons - send them in or out of view - with highlighting or lighting. :) So many systems working together.

nice, dude

Now THIS is what a real Metaverse looks like! Really cool concepts. You should submit these to some of these to VR companies like Meta so they can make them standard features.

5:04 FRIENDLY FIRE

Denuvo really does bring down games to its knee.

what a paradox

Imagine pairing that with Facebook new model which crops objects very accurately. You will basically import your dog into vr 😅

Well, getting rid of the bed in the background was a big step I'm sure. Congratulations you're one step closer to the background matching your content and becoming a regular KZfaqr 😉. I enjoy your very well researched and insightful content, thanks.

Soda tracker, love it!

1.5 meters to beer 1.0 meters to beer .3 meters to beer Beer Imminent Beer Acquired

Is this a new camera or just improved lighting? Video looks super clean!

hi dad

That doggy box looks like it might need to be just a little bit bigger for those fast movements.

Wow, mind blown. Leave it to Bradley to kick things up to an 11. Now I have to go buy another 4 pack of Tundra Trackers. . . I like playing retro games with the right controller and it is difficult in EmuVR but with this I can track a few controllers. The main problem is finding them. I'd rather not have my hands and be able to see my controllers instead.

Would be great to see a tracked ball and playing catch with it

Woof

Imagine a workplace meeting in VR where you are communicating with your engineering team. You have a meeting room that is completely vr, But you are showing off a real life prototype. Would it be possible to "cut out" this real world prototype to show it to your coworkers, but have them see the real world cutout of the object as it is viewed from your headset?

Wonder if developers could use google 360 world map. We could play in the real world as an avatar, would sort of be like using AR outside.

this is the future

I'm just waiting until we're at the point where I can toss away my monitors because the resolution/colors/contrast/etc is on par with one in the physical world. I know our screens now are 'thin', but when you have 3-4 of them... things can start getting crowded. Would much rather have a clean desk with some HID devices on top than a tri-mount stand+monitors, etc. That coupled with something as unnoticeable as AR contact lenses and some sort of tactile+force feedback for the hands, and the desk can get tossed too ;) Keep up the great work and staying technical! It's harder and harder nowadays to find any in-depth info on anything without some entertainment or 'celeb scientist' element mixed in, especially on YT.

you should do a denuevo vid. there's a huge community against it. given the praydog mod coming, denuvuevo deoptimization might affect a lot of games. (discourage devs from using them)

with the boxy slightly distorted passthrough it reminds me strongly of a personal shielding from the old Dune movie. Quite amusing I thought :)

I think I need a tumbler or glass and mount a tracker to it... can stay hydrated in VR

A neat XR prototype is that shooter with random characters within your own house/environment, forget the name of the project

Wow

You doing the RC car/steam deck screen pass through reminded me of how Apple has been doing screen sharing from Mac to iPad over wifi for a while. I’m guessing that this will be used with the HMD to show virtual screens in MR.(I am eternally scarred by a question on Cash Cab: What are the special characters above the numbers on a standard US keyboard? I didn’t know them in order!)

I use the 3d lines on my boundary to interact with things on my desk constantly. Makes me feel kinda cyberpunk

1:58 that's pretty sick maybe a yuru camp shirt? hmm

So, yeah. Beer tracking. This is the future!

Cool, next and I want to see a selfie cam tracker that doesn't require the source hmd's line of sight. 🤔

Yall heard it here first… beer tracking is the future 🤣

the vr car thing could be used for a virtual gimbal

"Obsessed & crazy like those that memorise every key on their kb." Like Typists, Programmers, secretaries, etc?

the frkn weezer lmaooo

This might be new to some people but a lot of people's have already been working using VR using the quest 2! I work in VR with a quest pro. its amazing

I am interested in jumping into tethered VR in the future, but not interested in buying into the Index at this stage in it's product cycle, so looking forward to Valve's next iteration (hopefully it isn't like HL3).

would be awesome to play guitar or drums in vr

I would like to see upgrade / spare parts kit for index that contains better resolution displays even if it means to give up 120 and 144 Hz modes.

I gotta finish your review on DPVR I like the flip up & user friendly design. What is a cheap PC you recommend?

I wonder how it is like to have one of these tracked dog while doing Vesper peak. The human brain can't handle MR double dogging I bet.

Wiggle box!

mindboggling lol

can you just map a button to act as a torchlight and create a portal attached to the controller while you hold it?

I’m watching this for the first time 2 months late, so much has changed sense then, still interesting tho.

does anyone know what that pool vrc world was called

Brad, you are, you are, like a super nerd bro! Like SO nerdy.....lol Rock on! OH my God!

I’ve been trying to play to 2D games in the VR chat but I keep running into an input problem which is when I play the 2D game I also move around in VR chat at the same time while using a controller. Do you know any way to get past this?

I'm in the simming community and I never knew that feature existed 😭😭😭

Very clever adaptations! You seem knowledgeable and inventive, so....perhaps I could bother you with a (semi-related) question: I am a looping musician and i want to create a VRchat avatar & then livestream my avatar performing on my irl musical instruments (synth, guitar, drum kit) in real time. Do you think green screen reversal is my best approach, or should I be looking at using something like Reality Mixer or LIV to map and virtualize my instruments, so they can be played in a vr setting that my avatar streams from? (hope that isn't confusing, lol) thanks for any shared thoughts.

This video is the reason why I bought a vive tracker. I wanna be able to use my Steamdeck in vrchat! What did you use to attach the tracker to your deck? If it's 3d printed it would be nice if you could share the model.

something I'm wondering is if the steam contoller is tracked within vrchat because vrchat shows a steam controller on the floor in your play space center when a gamepad is used. okay well I said this a second before you switched to vrchat gameplay