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Re:VR by evo_9 on Friday January 13, 2017 @01:58PM (#13393580)
To add to this point - I personally only buy/play Room-Scale games for this reason. And with HTC expected to sell additional LightBox sensors, it's quite possible I'll be able to expand my play space from the current HTC Vive max of roughly 12x13 to pretty much fill my entire basement. Of course you are limited by the cabling right now but HTC has a wireless module already announced for release during the first half of this year.

Exciting times for VR after decades of false starts.

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Re:VR by Zikes on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:07PM (#13393695)
> with HTC expected to sell additional LightBox sensors

You can buy additional base stations right now[1], mostly for replacement purposes, but the biggest limitation to using more than 2 has been in the software simply not supporting them.

[1] https://www.vive.com/us/accessory/

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Re:VR by arielweisberg on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:06PM (#13393684)
I thought adding more sensors (laser projectors?) to a Lighthouse system decreases the refresh. It halves for each one?
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Re:VR by schnelle on Friday January 13, 2017 @03:29PM (#13394425)
It does since they wait for each other to finish before doing a sweep with the laser.
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