THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! The Next Gen of VR tech! 

I had a ton of fun testing out the new Vive tracker S and I was pretty impressed with HTC's mixed reality demo. I really really wish Meta would spend some resources to make really awesome mixed reality tech demos to be honest. Goes a LONG way. I guess we'll see pretty soon with the Quest 3! Discord.gg/thrill

Due to being camera tracked, basestationless vive trackers wouldn’t decide to launch me into space at random times then fling me back like a slingshot because it wasn’t in view of a base station for a millisecond. So I think that’s neat already.

these new trackers are a game changer. totally gonna use them for full body... and not.... white claw tracking in vrchat...

Hearing about advancements in VR is something that is just always a pleasure to hear.

Born too late to explore earth Born too early to explore the stars Born just in time for the birth of VR

Your dedication to the cause is heart warming.

dude those vive trackers have BIG potential for flight simmers.. I have a throttle with a panel of switches and buttons that I fumble around for in VR, if those could be used to pass through the panel into VR it'd be incredible

Bro, it's insane how far VR and xr have come, in such a short time. I take what you said to heart, about how the next decade could be a bit scary because of how fast technology is growing, but I try to look at it from multiple angles. Of course, it could be scary, but also it could be very beneficial for certain businesses. The thing I'm most worried about is the fact that if people want to switch everything to AR, then some people couldn't use it because of getting headaches and nausea from wearing AR glasses or contact lenses for so long. I don't know lol, just a bit of a ramble but that's how I feel about it. (By the way, I would just like to compliment your B-roll footage, its amazing!)

When it come to the people in VRC who really want fbt the Base stations are usually the biggest obstacle. This thing would help a lot :)

Not a lot of trackers make me as excited as this one!

Thrill, I’ve never even owned a VR headset but I can totally feel what you’re talking about with the blurring of reality. LYSM, keep doing what you’re doing buddy.

So essentially a Pico 4 (or any other wifi headset) with the new Vive trackers will be god-tier. Your entire house could be your playspace, as long as your wifi reach allows it. Then just model it and use it in vrchat lol along with mixed reality to see certain things around your house.

Ready Player One is truly a reality now. I know that's it's been said it has been that way for like 2 years, but this is so much closer than ever before. You're right, tech is moving very quickly. So quickly it's hard to comprehend. But I'm excited!

3 things came together at the right moment for me to get into vr, 1 - needed a new device to play games and videos, 2 - bonus pay from work because of pay I didn't know I was missing out on and 3 - started seeing your videos. From your videos a couple months ago I got lead to other RU-vidrs that do vr and now I love it. Thank you so much. I just play maybe 3 hours a day in various games but I normally just sit and watch videos, so I have become more active and happier. Wish I had got into this all earlier.

I have been waiting for stuff like this for so long and it's only going to get better and it has me excited! 🥰

I see these trackers and all I am thinking is we nee Konami to get into the VR scene so we can do DDR in VR. Can you imaging a DDR gathering in VR chat and everyone is playing DDR together at the same time! Like a dance off elimination game but a party! Okay I might need to start programming a DDR clone. We need more foot tracked games.

Your content is always fun to watch. The best content is content that is your own and unique to you, I’m not talking about the style of content you make or the specific way you make it, weather slow paced video or fast paced video it doesn’t matter, if you stop being you and try to conform to something else or something your not that’s when the content becomes mundane and unpleasant. Cuz I know you said Tuesday newsday was never something you really wanted to do, and you always wanted to change it up, but I’m saying don’t be scared of the community, even if 80% fall away if your having fun making videos that’s making videos and not having fun. Anyways love you man ❤️

This is going to be really cool for filmmakers who were using/want to use vive trackers to track their real camera alongside a virtual camera in a digital environment to put an actor against a greenscreen into a fully rendered scene in real time. Not needing the base stations makes the film set a lot easier to set up. Even if these are like $200 a pop ($70 more than the current vive tracker 3.0) It would be totally worth it for that use case, but might make it a hard sell for VR users. Interested to see how that shakes out.

Little story time: I watched your first Varjo video while I was sick from covid. I had no sense of taste, and I was hungry. Not exactly because my stomach was empty, just that I was craving some kind of food-sensation. Well, I never liked canned sardines, but my dad loves it so we always have a lot at home. I thought this'd be the perfect opportunity, as I couldn't taste it, but I could enjoy its texture. And I did! It was great! Never really had it again, I still hate it, but that one time was wonderful! But because I ate it while watching that video, now, _every single time_ when I hear Varjo, I think of the taste of sardines. I've accidentally Pavlov'd myself into associating high-end VR with sardines

I wonder if the mixed reality feature can help people with the Alzheimer's Disease? This mix reality feature sounds more useful than just fun and convenient.

I'm going to college for engineering, and making this kind of stuff is exactly what I want to do in the future. Thank you so much for making these videos over the years, I have watched every single one you put out for a long time now, and you may not realize it, but you're videos have actually had a massive impact on my life and deciding where I want to go in life.

Love your vids and content! Keep killin’ it!

So early! The self contained trackers look exciting.

Super cool and exciting video!! I needed this tysm

4:35 - that's such a cool shot + transition!

These vids are so good, and then there is the outro...cherry on top. just so good!

ok now we know why dogs and cats stare at walls, they have ar build in their brains for their entertainment

Thanks for the video ThrillSeeker

thanks for sharing :-) so many cool toys out there and even more coming soon

This looks really cool. The rate of AI development also makes me optimistic for a massive boom in the rate of development in the VR space.

I love to be inspired. And you just did that with that video. Thank you!

Your work is amazing!

Thanks for these vr updates!!

Cheaper and smaller hardware = More onboarding That’s the name of the game for social VR Another great video, thanks for the coverage :)

Been hoping someone would make inside-out slam trackers for a while. Excited get my hands on these and to make them work with SlimeVR 😊

I hope to get the new vive trackers! I really want my first FBT and this seems worth waiting for \o/

Happy to be here! Excited to see the new vid

Yes! I got the vive xr elite and I love it! Looking forward in getting the new vive trackers and I'll be set. Thanks for the vid!

Great content as always.

I am glad you see the object potential here. VR tools, firearms, swords, etc. It will totally turn the idea of "what is a vr usable object" on its head.

Love your content!

Amazing video, makes me hopeful for whats to come next!

It's so exciting to see the progress of VR and XR devices! I loved seeing the toucan fly through the portal.

imagine turning your house into an arcade walking through it trying to choose a game to play out of your steam library like thats a crazy thought

I've always felt that the headsets up to the quest 2 were basically "early adopter" headsets. The first few generations where everything is still new and research into what works and doesn't, and how to improve the tech is still in it's very early stages. On top of that VR in general still had a bit of a niche status for the longest time. That's the only thing I will wholeheartedly praise the Quest 2 for. As it's the first headset that truly appealed to a mass market, and brought a lot of visibility and popularity to VR in general. And now it seems we're stepping into the next step of VR. Where more serious and refined headsets are being made or researched. And where tech really starts to advance for new generations. I'm personally waiting for the next headset that Valve will inevitably release in the future. The Index has been an undeniable giant in the VR scene. Not for popularity, but for pretty much everything else. Mic and sound quality, comfort, customer support, resolution though that's falling behind now, refresh rate, customisation, price, still being the only one with individual finger tracking on the controllers, etc.)

I really do have dreams now and then of being in those same headsets in SAO (but without all the death) I want to see the progress of your own setups and different "Ready Player One" videos! Please keep making these vids 💛

This makes me so happy

Every video keeps my love for VR/XR/AR alive

great vid thrill, vive tracker S hype!!

I’m thrilled for another video!

those new vive trackers are looking really compelling

Can't wait for these!

I’ve been seeing a bunch of ads with the new vive head set and I’ve been waiting for thrill seekers review on it, awesome it’s finally here

_Excellence._ Liking, commenting, and already subscribed.

You finally talked about mixed reality the way it deserves! I really wanted to know your opinion about it, since it is a technology that I have known for years but it is not talked about much by a more recognized youtuber. Excellent video as always!

the new slam tracked vive trackers are something I suggested to meta right after the quest pro controllers hit. I am really glad someone decided to do it!

Exciting news! XR seems rad.

Powerful ending music.

5:00 sounds amazing, horrifying and like a lot of accidents 😂

This could be a long shot and just an idea: You could hypothetically make a full tracked vr headset with just a phone and Google cardboard type thing

You explaining looking through the wall portal sounds like a great psychedelic experience 😊

Great vid!

I am so excited when I see a new hardware showcase from Thrill.

Oh my god new thrill video time to watch yay

Ready player one here we come!

These new standalone trackers sound great for people like me, as my play space is L shaped ad my double bed gets in the way and it makes it so if I had normal trackers I'd need 3 or 4 baystations to cover the full play space but with these new cam based ones I could actually use them.

YESSSS VIDEO

Awwww yeahhh more vr tech content!

So Vario cost $6500 and Apple Vision Pro cost $3500 and people still are saying Vision pro is too expensive

This is truly insane! I'm saving for the quest 3 when it comes out, and it's gonna be sick!

4:29 guy staring at a wall: hahaha theres a wall here!!!

Love your content

When I first saw your coverage of the Beyond headset I was ready to go all-in to a full base station setup, but seeing how fast this tech is improving is making me reconsider. I might give it another year before I drop a ton of money on something that'll be outclassed so soon.

Hmm, must know if these trackers will be viable replacement for base stations if I decide I want to get Bigscreen VR, since I don't already have base stations. Would much rather have these.

4:40 I couldn't stop laughing when he was so close and just staring at the wall

best vr youtuber for sure! / vr content source

All I want is tracking like this and a Vario like pass through experience in a Beyond style form factor, then I'll finally adopt. It looks like we're FINALLY getting there slowly but surely. It's so good to see VR finally innovating & progressing.

Sweet! Maybe Varjo will drop there yearly subscription.

This reminds me of the AR cards for the 3DS! I loved those!

The new trackers will allow us to use a much larger space it seems which can really open things up for us to pull off some crazy moves in VR when coupled with a wireless headset

The Vive Tracker S knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the Vive Tracker S from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the Vive Tracker S is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the Vive Tracker S must also know where it was. The Vive Tracker S guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the Vive Tracker S has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

Amazing - looks like the future! 1 note, there is a difference in terminology. XR is a combination between VR, AR, and MR. MR is different to AR as in AR is just stuff inprinted onto your screen, but MR is mixed in the sense that the physical world in your screen can interact, bump, or block portions of the overlayed graphics. Hope that made sense!

Put those trackers, Quest Pro controllers and The Beyond headset together and youve got the ultimate setup for lightweight full immersion VR. The only thing left is getting it to last more than a couple hours with better battery tech

I often feel a bit upset at the situation the world is often in, and the way people can be at times yet, whenever I look to see the progress VR is making it actually somehow excites me for the future thanks for keeping us up to date, and shining a bit of a ray of hope into the future!

VR man comes with good news again, very cool

That xr really got you looking like vr junkie straight out of a sci-fi movie as you inspect a wall with such fascination.😊

tbh I'm glad these exist, just need some infrared lamps so tracking always works

I've always had problems with base stations, I have slime on preorder so will be insane to get base station quality tracking without the need for those expensive and temperamental boxes

The Vive trackers could be used on physical stand-ins for weapons and tools in games, combined with the XR tracking capabilities of future headsets, to allow the user to take those out of a 'cabinet' for use. Maybe even allow the things to be placed semi-freely on something like a table or propped against a wall so a game could dynamically make use of the room's real geometry and contents to create a virtual room in which the tool or weapon is encountered for the first time and picked up.

It’s like the screen glasses by hp, that allow you to sit anywhere and have a full-size screen while also still seeing around you. All of this news is super exciting

Thrills becoming a big feel for company's to allow him to see things not on the market. This reminds me of like DanTDM's relationship to mojang.

The headset looks so cool

Super exciting stuff! Recognize that we can't say for sure until they're actually released, but is it expected that these new trackers could work with the Bigscreen Beyond (to replace the need for Base Stations)?

Amazing, what a time to be alive! Like you say these next 10 years are going to be mind-boggling.

Always wanted to grab anything and bring it into VR. These SLAM trackers look awesome

This tracker has so many uses outside of VR. Imagine a drill, with its position tracked in a room, you would be able to drill precise holes by hand.

These are really promising, can't wait to see these when they release

XR applied to twitch streaming: Streamers can host real time depth scans of their environment, including themselves, as a VR Chat world. Viewers could then hangout with the virtualized streamer, while folks on PC will see those viewers' avatars accurately imposed in the streamers environment. The streamer could set boundaries and scaling, so if they want avatars to only roam around on their desk, they can set a bounding box to their scanned desk and shrink all avatars to fit. Imagine little VR chat avatars just doing whatever during a stream, They can have little speech balloons pop up over their avatars when they post in chat. Of course, with an XR headset, the streamer would also be able to see them on their desk. Would add a whole new dimension the chat experience.

The HTC VIVE was my first headset and honestly I'm really looking forward to your XR Elite review, as it looks to be my future goto headset with my developing nomad lifestyle, where space is a premium!

5:24 im definitely getting that when it comes out. But in the meantime slime VR is almost here!