[jb55]

> I know I saw a few devices (like gloves) at SIGGRAPH that attempted to reverse engineer tracking with the base stations

I'm attempting to do the same thing at the moment: https://github.com/jb55/libvive. I got basic stuff like buttons and gyros working. Right now I'm wrapping my head around some of the trigonometry that makes the lighthouse tracking work. Hopefully I'll have an open source reference implementation soon.

[crazyloglad]

great! One big annoyance with all the SDKs fighting it out right now is how much extra (and often closed source) junk they pull in that replicates things you likely already have, with quite invasive integration with your rendering pipeline to boot. Access to lower level primitives rather than integrated solutions is definitely a nice thing.