Positional tracking

Positional tracking is like playing hide-and-seek with a friend, but instead of just shouting "ready or not, here I come," your friend can see and follow your movements while you are hiding.

Imagine your friend has a magic eye that can "see" the room and everything in it in 3D (like in a video game) and can keep track of where you are moving. That's what positional tracking does in VR and AR.

Positional tracking technology is used to track the movement of your head, body, and sometimes even your hands and fingers in VR and AR experiences. It allows you to interact with the environment in a more realistic way, and helps to make the virtual world feel as if it is "real" and you are "really" in it.

This technology usually uses sensors, cameras, or infrared lights to detect and track your movements. The information is then sent to the computer that runs your VR or AR device, allowing it to accurately position the virtual world and objects around you.

Thanks to positional tracking, you can walk around, bend over, and look in different directions in the virtual world. This makes the experience more immersive and engaging, and helps to blur the line between the virtual and the real world.