Arcturus Vision Camera is an add-on module for Steam Frame which greatly enhances its passthrough camera quality. The obvious visual improvement, tiny size, and reasonable price make it easy to recommend.

In the course of my decade plus of using VR headsets and various accessories, I can’t think of any that were as straightforwardly recommendable as the Arcturus Vision Camera.

Usually that’s because VR headset accessories (especially those which directly interface with the headset’s software) have at least one major downside. Either they’re too big, too expensive, too niche, or just don’t work as well as you hoped.

The Arcturus Vision Camera is the exception to that trend. It’s not just tiny (a mere 10 grams), reasonably priced ($150), easy to use (plug-and-play), and does what it promises; it also fits Frame so perfectly that you’d swear it was a first-party accessory directly from Valve.

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[–] 7 points 1 month ago

Don't see a use for the average consumer who will just use it for gaming.

But I do see the potential use for all kinds of niche DIY projects that requires a customizable VR headset. Like for example mounting it on a robot arm so you can use the tracking to find the location of the gripper in space, and use the full color cameras to read labels for the robot to pick up.

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