Guides and stories: tracking best practices on our blog

Practical knowledge, not just product specs

Under Blog & Guides & Papers we collect articles that help in day-to-day optical tracking: calibration, marker physics, surface-based VR, and real application stories. Not press copy — the practices that keep installations stable and precise over months.

Guides: best practices from the lab and the setup

• Room calibration first, body calibration when needed — When tracking drops, room calibration is often the issue, not the target. 2D Monitor examples show how to tell EOR, IOR, and body problems apart.
• DTRACK target calibration — Phantom markers, axis alignment, SMARTTRACK workflows, and when fewer markers are better.
• Retroreflection: glass beads and markers — Why passive markers look so bright in the IR image, and what that means for DTRACK.
• Optical 6DOF tracking for VR CAVE and powerwall — How large-scale projection and multi-user setups differ from headset VR — and why tracking carries the illusion.

Stories: tracking in real installations

• Stereo LEDs and projection — Why good tracking is essential for surface-based VR, even though it is only a small share of the system cost.
• Direct pose control — TU Berlin IWF — Closed-loop control of a FANUC robot with ARTTRACK / AT7 and DTRACK: position and orientation errors reduced by around 90%.

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All posts — guides, stories, and papers — are under Blog & Guides. For setup questions: tracking configurator or book an appointment.