Logitech’s first Meta Quest stylus helps artists work in 3D

Jun 17, 2024 11:10 PM - 4 months ago 58064

Today, Logitech officially announced its MX Ink stylus, nan company’s first mixed reality accessory for nan Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets. The MX Ink will supply artists pinch a much earthy replacement to nan Quest’s controllers for contented creation that feels for illustration utilizing a pencil aliases a paintbrush.

The search accuracy and low-latency capacity of nan Meta Quest’s autochthonal controllers person helped position nan headset arsenic much than conscionable a gaming aliases media depletion device, but nan controllers, which tin consciousness for illustration holding and moving pinch a tin of spray paint, don’t ever connection nan champion interface for contented creation. For galore artists, a stylus is simply a preferable instrumentality complete a rodent aliases peripherals chiefly designed for gaming, which is why companies for illustration Wacom person thrived for decades and why Logitech is bringing nan stylus into nan 3rd dimension.

Looking rather a spot thicker than nan styluses Logitech sells for tablet devices (it weighs successful astatine 29 grams, compared to 20.7 grams for nan second-gen Apple Pencil), nan MX Ink tin beryllium utilized for illustration a accepted stylus for 2D contented creation successful a mixed reality situation pinch features that see swappable pressure-sensitive tips and aggregate buttons that tin beryllium reprogrammed successful nan Quest’s autochthonal settings app. Confirming leaks complete nan weekend, nan stylus besides features 6DoF search successful 3D space, akin to nan Quest’s autochthonal controllers, haptic feedback, and a pressure-sensitive main fastener allowing artists to people sketch aliases manipulate models aliases objects successful 3D space.

The Logitech MX Ink features aggregate buttons, a pressure-sensitive tip, and an optional dock charger.

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Logitech promises up to 7 hours of artillery life, and nan MX Ink tin beryllium charged utilizing either a built-in USB-C larboard aliases nan much convenient MX Inkwell Charging Dock, which allows nan stylus to simply beryllium dropped successful for charging to start. However, nan dock will beryllium an optional accessory, pinch pricing not revealed yet.

Five years ago, Magic Leap announced a business pinch Wacom to co-develop tools, allowing nan second company’s stylus exertion to beryllium utilized pinch nan mixed reality headset successful hopes of justifying nan costly Magic Leap One arsenic a must-have contented creation tool.

Unfortunately, that collaboration required artists to awkwardly clasp a beingness drafting tablet successful 1 manus and a stylus successful nan different while besides wearing nan Magic Leap One and wrangling that headset’s awkward cablegram tethers.

The wholly wireless MX Ink stylus appears to connection acold much state of activity and convenience for artists, and Logitech has already announced compatibility pinch galore Meta Quest apps, including Adobe Substance 3D Modeler, Open Brush, Gravity Sketch, and Realize Medical.

However, according to RoadtoVR, Logitech has confirmed that its caller MX Ink stylus won’t support nan more powerful Meta Quest Pro, which is besides not listed arsenic being compatible connected nan MX Ink merchandise page.

Although Logitech hasn’t provided an nonstop merchandise day for erstwhile nan $129.99 MX Ink will beryllium available, it’s promising a “later this year” merchandise erstwhile it will beryllium sold done Logitech, Meta, and Amazon.

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