In the present day, Logitech officially announced its MX Ink stylus, the corporate’s first blended actuality accent for the Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets. The MX Ink will present artists with a extra pure various to the Quest’s controllers for content material creation that appears like utilizing a pencil or a paintbrush.
The monitoring accuracy and low-latency efficiency of the Meta Quest’s native controllers have helped place the headset as greater than only a gaming or media consumption machine, however the controllers, which may really feel like holding and dealing with a can of spray paint, don’t at all times supply the most effective interface for content material creation. For a lot of artists, a stylus is a preferable device over a mouse or peripherals primarily designed for gaming, which is why companies like Wacom have thrived for many years and why Logitech is bringing the stylus into the third dimension.
Wanting fairly a bit thicker than the styluses Logitech sells for pill gadgets (it weighs in at 29 grams, in comparison with 20.7 grams for the second-gen Apple Pencil), the MX Ink can be utilized like a conventional stylus for 2D content material creation in a blended actuality atmosphere with options that embody swappable pressure-sensitive ideas and a number of buttons that may be reprogrammed within the Quest’s native settings app. Confirming leaks over the weekend, the stylus additionally options 6DoF monitoring in 3D area, much like the Quest’s native controllers, haptic suggestions, and a pressure-sensitive predominant button permitting artists to naturally sketch or manipulate fashions or objects in 3D area.
Logitech guarantees as much as seven hours of battery life, and the MX Ink may be charged utilizing both a built-in USB-C port or the extra handy MX Inkwell Charging Dock, which permits the stylus to easily be dropped in for charging to begin. Nonetheless, the dock shall be an elective accent, with pricing not revealed but.
5 years in the past, Magic Leap announced a partnership with Wacom to co-develop instruments, permitting the latter firm’s stylus know-how for use with the blended actuality headset in hopes of justifying the costly Magic Leap One as essential content material creation device.
Sadly, that collaboration required artists to awkwardly maintain a bodily drawing pill in a single hand and a stylus within the different whereas additionally carrying the Magic Leap One and wrangling that headset’s awkward cable tethers.
The fully wi-fi MX Ink stylus seems to supply much more freedom of motion and comfort for artists, and Logitech has already introduced compatibility with many Meta Quest apps, together with Adobe Substance 3D Modeler, Open Brush, Gravity Sketch, and Understand Medical.
Though Logitech hasn’t supplied a precise launch date for when the $129.99 MX Ink shall be obtainable, it’s promising a “later this yr” launch when will probably be bought by Logitech, Meta, and Amazon.