The Vive Tracker pushes the capabilities of HTC’s virtual reality headset further by letting actual objects be turned into controllers. One developer taking advantage of this is dotdotdash. Their team has created a virtual reality camera that will let you take pictures inside the VR space and even print these out in real life. Called the D3-U, it’s currently only a concept but a brief VR demo shows what it can do. The D3-U was used to capture images of mysterious life forms on Kepler 22-b. But it isn’t just simple point-and-shoot, just like how we use modern smartphone cameras, the D3-U lets users zoom in and out, use real-time filters like X-ray and thermal images. Imagine what this proof-of-concept can bring into the VR space if it ever does become widely available?
Source: The Verge