any way to improve tracking on vive?

H3RBSKI · 19 Dec 2016 at 23:59

my vive works great 90% of the time but then others the tracking on the controllers and sometimes the headset just screws up my hands start doing what they want and every now and then the head set does a barrel roll...
i have my light houses in the right place with them pointing at the centre of the room but this keeps happening.
any body else get this or anyone know how to sort it?

H3RBSKI · 20 Dec 2016 at 12:11

It can be anywhere in the area. I'll try the cable tonight and see if it helps. We have no mirrors in the front room and I only really play it at night with the curtains closed so no reflections from the window.
Base stations are mounted to the wall and secure.
as with the height I'm 6ft 6 so I didn't measure when I put them up is just put them at head height ad it reccomend 6.5ft in the manual. I may try playing in the dark and see if it's the light that's causing it. If I use the base station skin from the workshop that shows all the directions of the lazers the main central one on both are aiming down into the centre of my play area.

H3RBSKI · 20 Dec 2016 at 15:30

RoyMi6 said:
If the base stations are below head height when you walk between them you'll loose tracking for sure.

Disabling the camera is another good point. At the very least turn the refresh rate down but there's plenty of people having trouble with the amount of data over a single USB cable causing issues.

I watched a video earlier about height of base stations. The guy did them correct height, waist height and then on the floor. All 3 positions worked perfectly so not sure it's that. When I get back I'm just gonna disable the cam, move to a USB 2.0 and use the connection cable for the base stations. If it works then great if not I'll see if I can rma it

H3RBSKI · 21 Dec 2016 at 16:10

yeah protective film removed. both bases are mounted to the wall and tight, tested buy jumping up and down in front of them or knocking on the wall they are attatched to but then never went blue.
ive done whats suggested in the posts above, disabled cam, moved to usb 2.0 and used link cable. just had a game on golf club vr and had no issues which i would have several issues on this game before. so hopefully its fixed it