As you might be able to tell by other posts on this blog, I like to delve into rabbit holes every now and then, my most recent rabbit hole being VR gaming.
A couple of days ago, I found a HTC Vive Pro 2 for 50€ in the “defective” section of a small electronics shop nearby. There, “defective” can mean anything from “actually works, but we were too bored to check” to “completely battered”.
- HTC Vive is untestable without the Vive Base Stations.
Base Stations
The HTC Vive Base stations are fascinating. Essentially. It’s two lasers on motors spinning really really fast, thus forming an infrared grid. However, with these things initially being released in 2016, and thus being close to 8 years old,