I am so proud of you HTC. This is some amazing news.

This sounds like exactly what thousands of people have been waiting for! I can't wait to see how well it works 😃

Wow I can't wait to give these a try they look awesome!

This is a great step forward and reinforcing your position to the developer and consumer by offering up the cad files. This is even more expanded by your commitment to OpenXR. Look forward to seeing more about this soon!

So exciting! Can't wait to dance in VR with this new tech! Thank you @htcvive! 🙌🎉

Vive is out here making a friggen comeback like damn

One of the most significant parts of this announcement is the explicit support for non-HTC OpenXR platforms! #Bullish ❤‍🔥

OpenXR support is 🔥🔥

People have been shouting out for this for ages, absolutely great news and a hugely positive move by HTC. I hope it works with other headsets, just for those that already have a headset. This is really fantastic, great work HTC! Also, release the CAD files is hugely appreciated!

This is exactly what I imagined full body trackers will look like after seeing what the self-tracked Quest Touch Pro controllers could do. If this is priced right HTC will have a BIG comeback with these.

Standalone full body tracking ayo!

This is too good to be true. Can't wait for HTC to make a massive comeback!

OpenXR, self tracked tracker, up to 5 connected on a dongle? This is actually something the VR community wanted! Congrats, now price and battery life might be the biggest deal breaker, but it's progress :) Keep lighthouses based hardware, both are great and have their benefits

I cannot wait until we can implement this for dancing. More and more we have seen HTC Vive take things to the next level in VR, which allows us more and more freedom of expression in VR. This is amazing!

I am genuinely impressed with your open platform efforts. This is amazing.

Amazing! Please release a OpenXR Wigig2 Module too! Everyone will buy one!

Super exciting 👀 can’t wait!

VERY Exciting!! Really looking forward for these now!! 😮✨

I have been having a lot of fun with the XR Elite for the last couple of weeks. These self-tracking trackers sound like a a great idea!

Mad respect for how straight to the point this is. No over explaining or under explaining anything, just answers to the most common questions. Great job vive

The Standalone non XR tracking is very much needed feature and I love it.

Fantastic, I love that you're offering this as an alternative, not as a replacement.

I'm glad your not going the meta proprietary way. I'm happy to have your 3.0 trackers, and I'm looking forward to your new developments.

Great moves by Vive lately.

WOW! 💜 As a vtuber who has used Vive trackers for more than 3 years now, i'm EXCITED for the new tracker!

The most pressing use case for these will be alongside the Quest 3 while used over Airlink with SteamVR in VRChat. I hope Vive knows that, and will make that exact use case their top priority for these.

This is insane and honestly I beleive that more people than you thought will be interested in this, including users of the old vive trackers. Looking forward to seeing the price.

LETS GO BEEN HOPING SOMEONE MADE THIS

I'm really excited to use this as object and camera tracking for Unreal Engine. This is a game changer for Rokoko and Xsense filmmakers. Thank you, HTC!

Our Champion!🎉

Charging dock please! Also, custom wide straps to prevent clothing from obscuring the camera fov. Also, so excited for this!!

I can not wait to try these out, thank you for making it open source and cross compatible. The VR community need more technology developers to make their technology this open to elevate the technology for the community we have and to build on the future of VR

Estos Self-tracking trackers sí me convencieron. Espero no sean muy caros. 🙏 Yo y un amigo estamos alertas a cualquier actualización.

As a person who regularly uses full body tracking for Beat Saber and VR Chat, I am looking forward to these more than I can even describe. I currently have a total of 5 of the 3.0 trackers and I absolutely 100% expect to buy at least 5 of these. I just hope they're not like $500 each, I'd have to draw a lot of pictures to afford that.

I appreciate the vrchat hashtag used - it helps those who mostly use the fullbody market the most attention.

If nothing else, HTC innovates! I'm greatly looking forward to this one!

This quite cool technology! Been thinking as part of a massive upgrade to my workflow to get the previous lighthouse-based trackers for mocap; but this would be more perfect for me needs... and if Valve comes out with the rumoured "Deckard" - then I could have full-body mo-cap tracking anywhere and would no longer be restricted to just my room! I hope this is priced agreeably along with the dongle... I'm gonna keep a close eye on this! 😁

This is gonna be big!

Vive killing it lately

HTC is doing some awesome stuff, can't wait to hear more about this and your mixed reality headsets!!

that self tracker is amazing, it will be so helpful for everything, it will definitly cost more than the trackers we have now but i hope it will be cheaper than 2 lighthouse and 1 tracker combo

Finally y’all are actually doing something we want for the first time in a while

Probably the most impressive thing that vive ever announced. Not looking forward the price though.

Thank you HTC! It's wonderful that this is not locked in to the HTC ecosystem, although the pairing with Vive XR Elite would be pretty epic, I'm sure!

This is amazing piece of news!

Very excited for it! I'm developing VR experiences for fairs, exhibitions, partys etc.. (with custom hardware parts!) but I never used the lighthouse systems and so I could never use the vive tracker in cases I would love to... But now... that might change a lot! Would love to know details about the pogo pin configuration - same as with the vive trackers?

Glad to see HTC is still innovating. Good job ya'll.

Exciting and open!

OMG this is amazing

I can’t wait for this!!!

This looks really awesome! And the fact they support other headsets is awesome. Could you potentially attached one to the back of the headstrap of the Big Screen Beyond to get head tracking?

I would be interested in seeing this application extend more to the controllers, either by releasing new controllers that track themselves, or by having the new trackers pick up controller tracking when outside of the headset's detection (if they are behind your head for example and within vision of these trackers, they will provide it's position, instead of relying on the IMU).

This is big news. This will be interesting for full body tracking, but I think that can probably be done with IMUs and fancy software almost as well since the are attached to a human body with limited movement possibilities and the headset for a point of reference. Where this is really exciting is for things not attached to the body, like custom controllers. With this devs could basically 3D print any custom controller they wanted and attach this to it for tracking. If this had a few really simple analog or digital ports where you could plug buttons on wires into it, this would be a maker's dream. At that point anyone could build a tracked vr controller using this in any form they could imagine.

This makes me so happy, I wish it was coming out sooner!

This is great it’s exactly what people need one of the best leading vr companies to make something like this

Definitely gonna buy these

I already have PCVR full-body tracking and I'm still excited for this.

Been waiting for this lets go

OMG! this is so great! good job guys we've been waiting for this for so long

Im just hearing about this now. Awesome!

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUU, 100% buying this with my HTC VIVE XR ELITE!!!! Best social platform VR company that exists!

HOLY SHIT! This is exactly what we have been looking for! The design is amazing and I love how open you are in supporting OpenXR and 3D printing! HUGE WIN! Thank you sooo much! Honestly, this is just amazing!

Since it has 2 cameras and battery and a CHIP to process all these. It's gonna be 150usd+ per piece

1:01 was that dance from killer bean?

Good work 👍

now that's a game changer looking forward to these

OpenXR support sounds awesome, but please HTC, think about Linux support too!

I'm mostly interested in battery life and whether these pins can be used to charge the trackers while being used. They probably won't be as long-lasting as SlimeVR trackers s but they'd better be closer to it than previous iterations.

You had me at "We're releasing the cad files so you can 3d print your own mounts"

Amazing!

Bravo HTC. Well played.

Very interested, but needing the camera processing, a bit concerned about the battery life, can it handle as long a runtime as the vive tracker 3.0? even that one is a bit short for comfort in my opinion.

I look forward to trying these out on VRChat.

Good that you keep the Lighthouse trackers as well.

This is great news! My only concern is the sacrifice of battery life in favor of making it even smaller…

This is great :)

Thank you for supporting the maker community

I'm glad I preordered the Vive XR Elite, it was a hard pill to swallow at first to be honest. Can't wait to get it in my hands on it now 🍺😁👍

This is it! This is it!!!!!!!

This is excellent news!!! I can’t wait to purchase this. Great job HTC!!! ❤️👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙌🏿

Very cool!

This is amazing please keep price reasonable!

1:01 love the killer bean representation in this video

amazing! great announcement

Of course.. literally right after I just ordered base stations and trackers..

this sounds awesome would be an absolute banger if it would support basestation based tracking as well in a hybrid mode - both technologies working together for better tracking

HE SAID VTUBERS HE SAID THE WORD Preordered the new headset right when it came out, I can’t wait to have face tracking through a headset for the first time! Was wondering how much smaller the tracker would have been without the UNC mounting and it had it’s own way to attach to straps (maybe their own custom straps) for full body tracking. I heard mocopi will be releasing to the west sometime in spring. I wonder which one would be released first

this is genuinly huge. i just hope its affordable.

Is it safe to assume that the price per tracker will be less/around the price of a single quest pro controller? At the end of the day its the same hardware but with no buttons and joysticks.

Keep up the good work

This is amazing! Will these be compatible with existing vive trackers?

Can you use these and the 3.0 at the same time for better FBT and object tracking?

Thanks HTC for bringing this to us.

looks good. how robust is the locking mechanism?

I don't think they ever heard of "show, don't tell"

Ayy they actually did something good!!

I cannot wait...😮

How long does it last and does it work with no lights on?

OK now imagine this with LucidVR haptic gloves by LucasVR these will make an awesome combo!

It sounds like a lot better way to go, nearly every other 3rd party tracker out there is decently affordable, however has an age long waitlist to be able to even obtain them. Hopefully they come out with these soon I agree.