HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker 3 Pack + Dongle - VR Full Body Tracking - Compatible with SteamVR, Vive XR Elite, Meta Quest Virtual Reality Headsets

(EDIT: 5/5 Stars. Testing on both my Quest 2 and Quest 3 VIA Link Cable and SteamVR, the trackers work GREAT After the newest updates. I now only have to recalibrate once in a blue moon. The mapping stays consistent every time I turn on the trackers in my play area. It's very helpful to know that when setting up the trackers, you don't have to be in front of your PC. What I did was stand in front of my couch and set it as my home area, so whenever I turned on my trackers I would have to face the couch and let the trackers do it's thing. Whenever I do experience drifting and am unable to fix it with the calibration tab, I just turn off the trackers on vive hub, make sure I stand in front of my couch, turn them back on, then recalibrate them. It sounds like a long process, but should only take you three minutes max! )A quick disclaimer, I did buy these trackers used, and it does not come with straps, but after having the trackers for a few weeks at this point, I'd say it's fairly good.I was concerned reading the reviews since it talks about lighting issues and how it affects the tracking since my bedroom lights aren't that bright, but after setting them up, the tracking worked well!Following the guide for third party headsets (I used a quest 2) it is recommended that you don't clear out your room completely. The trackers need a point of reference so it can track your movements more accurately, so some furniture is better then completely clearing out your room.The ease of setup is a bit lacking, you'll have to join the VIVE to access the beta, setup the app for the trackers, connect the trackers to the dongle, install a few updates, and then finally pop on your headset and setup the tracking. Personally, I don't know if it's because I bought mine used, sometimes the trackers would either disconnect or drift off into another plane of existence whenever I would recalibrate. Thankfully, it only happens once every blue moon.Overall, I give it a 4/5. I love it, but it could be easier to handle in the future. Would recommend for FBT VR games 👌

Gonna drop as thorough of a review of these as I can, please read this before you buy them! I bought mine to play games like VRChat and have full body tracking, and here's my overall thoughts on them.Tracking: 3.5/5. Pretty standard nothing bad but nothing exceptional. It's good tracking, though it slides around a bit too much sometimes and has occasional lag and stuttering. There's worse out there, but there's certainly better as well. Check other products if the quality of tracking is your main worry.Connection/Syncing: 0/5. The connection between the trackers, their dongle and the VR headset itself (also known as syncing) is...Disappointing, to put it very lightly. It's the most glaring problem the product has, a process that should take 3-5 minutes tops took me 2.5 hours the day I got them, 45 minutes the day after, and then over an hour on the day of this review. I run a Meta Quest 3 and connect it to my high-performance PC via a USB 3.0 cable. Both my PC and my Quest 3 are in tip-top condition and have zero issues, leading me to believe it's just the trackers themselves having this syncing issue. It stutters, it cuts out, it drags, it's inaccurate, and it's promise of "tracking without base stations" is misleading. If you have a lot of base stations, I imagine this problem is negligible or non-existent.Battery: 4/5. Lasts longer than my headset (even when it's charging while I play via my PC!) giving me 5+ hours of life. They charge somewhat slowly, but the battery is quite nice.Software: 1/5. The bottom line is that the HTC Vive software will usually tell you what's wrong, but not why or how it's wrong. The download is a PITA, and setting the trackers up and getting them to sync just to each other is no better. It's minimal, in all the wrong ways.Directions/product installation: 1/5. It doesn't come with physical directions, instead you scan a QR code (how futuristic!) and it takes you to a page that's broken and only tells you a quarter of what you ought to know. As for setting up the tracking, refer to the previous sections of the review. It's difficult, makes you swear enough to make a sailor blush, and in my experience is unrewarding.Accessories/Miscellaneous: Doesn't come with any accessories, which for $600 you think it would. I bought the straps as well as a USB 3.0 hub separately. It also does not come with any of the cords needed to plug it where you need to. It requires you to plug each individual tracker into your PC to do an update before you use the product, and doesn't come with USB-C cables. I was lucky to have a pack of adapters I had bought for a different item. You'll likely be spending another $50 or more the straps, adapters and the hub.Overall: 1/5 due to the disappointing connection, irritating setup, inconsistency, lack of accessories and instructions, constant interrupts and the misleading description of the product. In order to make these work, you REQUIRE compatible base stations. This product costs way more than $600, and if you think you'll only spend $600, read this review again. Either save yourself the disappointment and buy a different product, or if you really don't care about the extra cost, pick up a few HTC Vive base stations as well. I'm sure the trackers work well with those base stations, but standalone they are just utter trash.

they work great but your area matters so much

They track great, but calibration can be a pain.Make sure your room has light, I mean BRIGHT.

I really wanted to like these a lot, but the tech just isn't there to make it work. Like many others, I too was looking for a great tracking solution that didn't require base stations. Most other forms of tracking you can get are sketchy and might drift, but this official solution seemed like it might have some promise.Unfortunately, the sheer unreliability makes it not worth your time. They take forever to get into a tracking state from the moment you turn them on, if they do at all. From there, they require calibration, which is also just as finicky, and might not even appear in your playspace correctly. If you're lucky, they'll maybe be a few inches off their real life position. If not, they'll be sunken deep into the floor.When you can finally get them to work and stay connected, they do the job, but if they start losing tracking be prepared to desperately try to restore them to functionality. You're supposed to hold them at chest height according to the program to restore tracking but it never works, or it will just lose it right back when you attach it back on. The trackers require an insanely bright play area to work as well.Maybe it's just my environment but the fiddling is absolutely a deal breaker, impossible to play anything like this. For $599 dollars (plus the cost of straps) they perform more like $100 trackers from a sketchy seller overseas.