HTC demonstrates multi-room VR using Vive PRO and SteamVR 2.0

HTC is said to be working on multi-room VR using Steam as the company has shown off a SteamVR beta, a Vive Pro, and 16 base stations to allow VR between multiple rooms. The tester said to have wandered between rooms finding tracked objects through a complex but connected space. Here’s a video of the test environment that people asked for. Three separate tracked spaces, with two 2.0 BS each, all in a shared virtual space. (Seems to work even behind closed door) Trackers placed within the shared space to show common coordinate system between spaces. pic.twitter.com/efqJKajky6 — Alvin Wang Graylin (@AGraylin) July 11, 2018 However, you can't expect to play VR games that span your entire home, though, as there are limitations. According to Alan Yates, the SteamVR is still limited to tracking from four base stations in a given session. This more or less is about the support for "radio-based channel configuration tools" rather than a dramatic change in SteamVR's capabilities. As of now, you can't really buy the setup, instead, you need to buy a Vive Pro to get Steam VR 2.0 tracking stations, so there's no way to tell if HTC or any other company would release the stand-alone station packs in the near ...

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