HTC Vive is opening orders for its new Vive Full Face Tracker, a plug-and-play module that brings face and mouth tracking to Vive XR Elite through a simple USB-C connection.
The new tracker brings enhanced immersion to VR, capturing natural, subtle facial expressions for virtual environments, games, motion capture, research, training, and more.
It allows facial movements to be represented naturally in XR, capturing up to 38 blend shapes across the lips, teeth, tongue, cheeks, nose, and chin at a 60Hz tracking rate. This means that even subtle facial expressions are accurately portrayed, and spoken words match facial expressions in real-time. The system can accurately track eye movements at 120 frames per second.
It also sports an auto-calibration feature that detects interpupillary distance (IPD) and automatically calibrates the headset for viewing comfort and clarity. This feature allows multiple users to share the same headset without having to manually reset the IPD slider every time.