Logitech’s first Meta Quest stylus helps artists work in 3D

Today, Logitech officially announced its MX Ink stylus, the company’s archetypal mixed world accessory for the Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets. The MX Ink volition supply artists with a much earthy alternate to the Quest’s controllers for contented instauration that feels similar utilizing a pencil oregon a paintbrush.

The tracking accuracy and low-latency show of the Meta Quest’s autochthonal controllers person helped presumption the headset arsenic much than conscionable a gaming oregon media depletion device, but the controllers, which tin consciousness similar holding and moving with a tin of spray paint, don’t ever connection the champion interface for contented creation. For galore artists, a stylus is simply a preferable instrumentality implicit a rodent oregon peripherals chiefly designed for gaming, which is wherefore companies similar Wacom person thrived for decades and wherefore Logitech is bringing the stylus into the 3rd dimension.

Looking rather a spot thicker than the styluses Logitech sells for tablet devices (it weighs successful astatine 29 grams, compared to 20.7 grams for the second-gen Apple Pencil), the MX Ink tin beryllium utilized similar a accepted stylus for 2D contented instauration successful a mixed world situation with features that see swappable pressure-sensitive tips and aggregate buttons that tin beryllium reprogrammed successful the Quest’s autochthonal settings app. Confirming leaks implicit the weekend, the stylus besides features 6DoF tracking successful 3D space, akin to the Quest’s autochthonal controllers, haptic feedback, and a pressure-sensitive main fastener allowing artists to people sketch oregon manipulate models oregon objects successful 3D space.

Logitech promises up to 7 hours of artillery life, and the MX Ink tin beryllium charged utilizing either a built-in USB-C larboard oregon the much convenient MX Inkwell Charging Dock, which allows the stylus to simply beryllium dropped successful for charging to start. However, the dock volition beryllium an optional accessory, with pricing not revealed yet.

Five years ago, Magic Leap announced a concern with Wacom to co-develop tools, allowing the second company’s stylus exertion to beryllium utilized with the mixed world headset successful hopes of justifying the costly Magic Leap One arsenic a must-have contented instauration tool.

Unfortunately, that collaboration required artists to awkwardly clasp a carnal drafting tablet successful 1 manus and a stylus successful the different portion besides wearing the Magic Leap One and wrangling that headset’s awkward cablegram tethers.

The wholly wireless MX Ink stylus appears to connection acold much state of question and convenience for artists, and Logitech has already announced compatibility with galore Meta Quest apps, including Adobe Substance 3D Modeler, Open Brush, Gravity Sketch, and Realize Medical.

Although Logitech hasn’t provided an nonstop merchandise day for erstwhile the $129.99 MX Ink volition beryllium available, it’s promising a “later this year” merchandise erstwhile it volition beryllium sold done Logitech, Meta, and Amazon.