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Central to the Lighthouse technology are the Base Stations, small rectangular objects placed in the room. They serve as reference points for any positionally tracked devices such as the HMDs and controllers. Base Stations perform this function by flooding the room with a non-visible light, the receptors on the tracked devices would intercept the light and figure out where they are in relation to the Base Stations. Multiple Base Stations (2 for SteamVR) allow the tracked devices to figure out where they are in the 3D space. | Central to the Lighthouse technology are the Base Stations, small rectangular objects placed in the room. They serve as reference points for any positionally tracked devices such as the HMDs and controllers. Base Stations perform this function by flooding the room with a non-visible light, the receptors on the tracked devices would intercept the light and figure out where they are in relation to the Base Stations. Multiple Base Stations (2 for SteamVR) allow the tracked devices to figure out where they are in the 3D space. | ||
| + | Each Base Station contains numerous LEDS and 2 laser emitters that spin rapidly. 60 times per second, the LEDs would flash and 1 of the 2 spinning lasers would sweep a beam across the room. | ||
==Non-VR Applications of Lighthouse== | ==Non-VR Applications of Lighthouse== | ||
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This page is a stub, please expand it if you have more information.Valve plans to make Lighthouse freely available to all hardware manufactures.
How It Works
Central to the Lighthouse technology are the Base Stations, small rectangular objects placed in the room. They serve as reference points for any positionally tracked devices such as the HMDs and controllers. Base Stations perform this function by flooding the room with a non-visible light, the receptors on the tracked devices would intercept the light and figure out where they are in relation to the Base Stations. Multiple Base Stations (2 for SteamVR) allow the tracked devices to figure out where they are in the 3D space.
Each Base Station contains numerous LEDS and 2 laser emitters that spin rapidly. 60 times per second, the LEDs would flash and 1 of the 2 spinning lasers would sweep a beam across the room.
