Vive Tracker Experience Prototypes

Copyright (c) 2017, HTC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Introduction:

• In this project, we provide serveral prototypes demonstrating different experiences using Vive Trackers.

• Some experiences in this project provide a "shared" experience between Vive Player and co-located audience, which can transform passive audience into active participants of VR universe.

• Experience list:

  1. Model Viewer: "Shared" experience. Vive Player control (drag, throw) a 3D model using Vive controllers, and the audience can view the 3D model through smartphone screen with tracker mounted.

  2. Simple Shooter: "Shared" experience. Each audience hold a smartphone with tracker mounted. In limited time, the Vive player and mobile players shoot each other with virtual bullet to gain score.

Hardware requirements:

To run the experiences in this project, you need the following hardware:

• Vive
• at least 1 Vive Tracker

To run the shared experiences, you need these additional hardware:

• Smartphone (Android 6.0 or above)
• One Vive tracker per smartphone; trackers should be mounted on smartphones
• Wireless LAN environment for PC and smartphones

How to run pre-build examples

You can download pre-build examples from the release tab.

For non-shared experience, just run the executable.

For shared experiences, follow these steps:

1. Install the APK files to your smartphones
2. Make sure all smartphones can connect to the PC hosting Vive via Wireless LAN (you can get diagnostic tools from Google Play store)
3. Run the executable on PC, and enjoy the experience!

Optionally, you can bind the trackers to certain TrackerRole, so the the tracker assigned as 1st will always be marked as tracker1 (see the tutorial in the pre-build example folder).

Software Requirements:

To build the prototypes from Unity Editor, please get these plugins from Unity Asset Store:

• SteamVR plugin (ver 1.2.1 or newer)
• Vive Input Utility (ver 1.6.0 or newer)