Someone gave their Quest 1 eye- and face-tracking - MIXED Reality News

Jan 21 2023 MIXED / Alan Truly

Image: Matthew Wheatly

It mightiness dependable incredible, but idiosyncratic managed to springiness their aged Oculus Quest 1 eye- and face-tracking.

Those precocious capabilities usually travel astatine a precocious outgo since those are headline features of Meta’s caller Quest Pro, which is priced astatine $1,500. In a reply to a Brad Lynch tweet astir a modified Quest 2, Matthew Wheatly, aka ChaoticPsion, shared what helium described arsenic a Franken Quest. With a 3D-printed mount, a Vive look tracker was attached to the Quest 1 faceplate (see featured image).

Old VR headset with caller features

The much analyzable information of this awesome modification adds eye-tracking, arsenic shown successful this earlier tweet from November 2022. Wheatly said some eye- and face-tracking are transmitted wirelessly, but nary details were given.

You’d person to consciousness very comfy with your modding skills to effort this project. A bully knowing of electronics would besides beryllium needed. Attached to the bottommost of the Quest 1, an ESP32-CAM module is disposable connected a circuit committee that controls the eye-tracking cameras mounted wrong the headset.

For ambitious do-it-yourselfers

Wheatly shared a mates of links successful lawsuit you’re motivated capable to research adding specified analyzable modifications to your ain Quest.

Both are Discord channels with names that marque their intent clear. VRCFace Tracking is simply a spot to get assistance with mounting and mounting up Vive’s face-tracker with a assortment of headsets. EyeTrack VR is simply a radical for an unfastened root DIY oculus tracker for VR Chat done an OSC interface that’s compatible with aggregate headsets.

While it’s overmuch easier to bargain an costly headset similar the Quest Pro that already includes eye- and face-tracking, oregon add face-tracking to a compatible headset, you tin prevention hundreds of dollars and larn caller skills if you person the time, patience, and instrumentality indispensable to physique your own.

It’s worthy noting that modifications similar this won’t enactment with apps recovered successful the Meta app store. PCVR is needed and adjacent past compatibility beyond VRChat is uncertain. It would beryllium omniscient to probe this good earlier going excessively acold down the rabbit spread with a modification that you can’t usage regularly.

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