VicoVR is like Kinect for mobile VR
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The gulf between phone-powered virtual reality and the Oculuses and HTC Vives of the world will, for a while, likely remain pretty wide. Phones just don't have enough processing power, and even if they did, mobile VR setups aren't capable of doing what makes desktop-based experiences so immersive: tracking your body's movement. VicoVR — which just launched on Indiegogo — is a project that could help close that gap.
Think of VicoVR like a Microsoft Kinect for your mobile VR setup. You slap it on a table or a shelf and point it at an open space in the room where you'll be moving around. The company says the array of cameras and sensors are capable of measuring "precise 3D coordinates of 19 body joints," which sounds good enough to track...
