Vive Pro vs Index base stations

ArmitageShanks · 23 Jan 2020 at 15:18

As I've donated my old Vive setup to a family member, I'm now left without any base stations for my Vive Pro and Index controllers. I was planning on getting some Index base stations, but who knows when they'll ever be back in stock. So now I'm considering getting some HTC replacements, preferably the 2.0 lighthouses (which are about £30 more expensive than the Valve ones sadly, but at least you can find them if you look around).

Obviously either will work, but does anyone know if there are any major technical or quality differences between the Valve and HTC variants?

ale bro · 24 Jan 2020 at 19:52

The HTC basestations are made by Valve, so they're the same. I've got one HTC and two Valve basestations running together.

ArmitageShanks · 25 Jan 2020 at 11:06

Thanks, that's good to know! I think I'm just going to swallow the additional cost and get two HTC base stations, can't wait forever for Valve to get its stock issues sorted out.

ArmitageShanks · 31 Jan 2020 at 14:32

Well, I got the HTC bstations and sure enough they're actually Valve-branded. They work well, but I'm finding they're not as accurate as my previous v1 stations - placing controllers touching together shows they diverge and overlap by quite some margin as I spin around.

ale bro · 31 Jan 2020 at 14:36

I do that test as well! it proves that tracking isn't as accurate as the mm claim that people make.

i've got 3 2.0 base stations, and when i touch the controllers together and turn around they overlap like you say.

My 1.0 tracking was the same. I have got a pair of unused Vive Pre basestations, which I will get round to testing if I install VR in my bedroom.

ArmitageShanks · 31 Jan 2020 at 18:19

With my v1 lighthouses, it overlapped/underlapped by about 1-4mm depending on how directly I faced them. With the v2 ones it feels more liked a 5-10mm variance. Might be picking up reflections from my plasma or something, need to experiment again!