VR artists can now buy Logitech’s pen-shaped Meta Quest controller

Logitech has released a pen-shaped Meta Quest controller that makes it easier to draw, sculpt, and manipulate objects successful mixed-reality environments. After initially being announced backmost successful June, the $129.99 Logitech MX Ink stylus is disposable to bargain starting today, and tin beryllium paired with the Meta Quest 3S, Quest 3, and Quest 2 headsets via the Meta Quest app.

The MX Ink should consciousness much comfy and earthy to usage crossed 2D and 3D originative bundle compared to overmuch bulkier Quest controllers, particularly for artists who are much accustomed to moving connected accepted drafting tablets. It’ll beryllium down to developers to marque their apps compatible with the stylus, with enactment already announced for Open Brush, Gravity Sketch, and Adobe Substance 3D Modeler.

According to Logitech, the MX Ink marks the archetypal clip that the Meta Quest tin enactment much than 2 paired controllers simultaneously, moving alongside the headset’s autochthonal controllers. Users tin power betwixt the 2 without disrupting their workflow, and inactive clasp acquainted Quest controller functions, specified arsenic tapping the Options fastener connected the stylus doubly to mimic the “B” input.

Users tin expect up to 7 hours of artillery beingness and person the enactment to recharge the MX Ink either via USB-C, oregon the inkwell-style charging basal that ships with the pricier $169.99 bundle. The stylus is reasonably chunky astatine 28.5 grams (about an ounce) and 18.1mm (about 0.7-inches) wide, but it utilizes haptics and unit sensitivity to emulate the feeling of utilizing a existent pen — albeit a girthy one.