Over the last few days I have been experimenting with ways to add positional tracking to the Oculus Rift. After watching some of the CES videos it seem that an optical tracking system is working pretty well for Oculus, but I ...
Sandys VR's insight:
This is so cool! I admire his idea and the way he just "built" it from scratch. When the first rumors about Oculus integrating a position tracking system occurred last year the first thing that came into my mind was magnetic tracking. This seems to be the most logical and probably cheapest solution for Oculus. Of course there are downsides like i.e. interference (which is a problem for any tracking), but I believe it is cheaper and easier to achieve than optical tracking. For a small area like a persons desk it should be totally suitable. I guess there were reasons for Oculus to go for optical instead of magnetical (or other) position tracking. If anyone knows more, I'd be love to hear it!!