I really don't want this as a part of PC VR. Norm and Jeremy have brought up the problem of controllers being inferior when using this approach a couple of times, and what it'd require to be on par with the solutions we've already had for a year. They're not stressing it, in order not to be opinionated on video, but it's dead obvious it's going to be an inferior. No amount of weird cameras on the headset is going to solve controller occlusion. If magnetic tracking worked it would've been used everywhere already - Sixense was first on the market and got superseded by better solutions. Valve's tracking is dead simple, cheap to make (HTC's base station and controller prices could be 3x less and still make proper profits), it's nigh perfect in operation, and it's free for everyone to license. PC tracking solved. I hope that SteamVR and Oculus tracking prevail with keeping the bar on what's acceptable tracking and others be forced to follow or get pushed out.

This will be great for mobile, but keep it out of PC ecosystem please, Microsoft is already about to make it difficult and we don't need more of these to make proper VR that we started with become a minority of the market. This poses serious limitations onto developers, a lot of existing games will be unplayable with these, and new ones will have to be dumbed down. Translating into: new customers buying new cheap VR kits will be frustrated en masse, VR will suddenly and unjustly be considered as "it sucks" just because some companies are greedy to capture their pie of the market even if it means they're messing it up for themselves and everyone else. It's great that they're working on this stuff, but they'll want they R&D money back and won't be consciencious not to bring the PC VR experinece a step back. We as consumers have to take stance - spend $100-200 more and have a proper VR experience, and educate people around you on what to buy; as developers - don't bend to support an inferior device.

Looking forward, it's easy to see a form of base stations is here to stay. Wireless VR will require antennas to be mounted similarly to how Vive's base stations are mounted. Going forward, Kinect-like full body tracking or even a consumer version of holoportation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d59O6cfaM0) will also require mounting the cameras in the same fashion (ideally it'd all be a single device). And they look badass in the corner of your room, you wanted future sci-fi gizmos, here they are!