Today, Logitech officially announced the MX Ink stylus, the company’s first mixed reality accessory for the Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets. MX Ink will provide artists with a more natural content creation alternative than the Quest controller, feeling just like using a pencil or paintbrush.
The tracking accuracy and low-latency performance of the Meta Quest’s native controllers help position the headset as more than just a gaming or media consumption device, but the controller feels like holding a can of spray paint and using it, which it doesn’t. Provides the best interface for content creation. For many artists, a stylus is a preferable tool to a mouse or a peripheral designed primarily for gaming, which is why companies like Wacom have thrived for decades, and why Logitech is bringing the stylus into the third dimension.
The MX Ink appears to be thicker than the stylus sold by Logitech for tablet devices (it weighs 29 grams, compared to the 20.7 grams of the second-generation Apple Pencil), and the MX Ink can be used like a traditional stylus to create 2D in a tablet. content. Confirmed by the leak over the weekend, the stylus also features 6DoF tracking in 3D space, similar to the Quest’s native controller, haptic feedback and a pressure-sensitive home button, allowing artists to naturally draw or manipulate models or objects in 3D space .
Logitech promises up to 7 hours of battery life, and the MX Ink can be charged using the built-in USB-C port or the more convenient MX Inkwell charging base. Just place the stylus in and start charging. However, the base will be an optional accessory and the price has not yet been announced.
Five years ago, Magic Leap announced a partnership with Wacom to develop tools that would allow the latter company’s stylus technology to be used with mixed reality headsets, hoping to justify the pricey Magic Leap One as a must-have content creation tool.
Unfortunately, this collaboration requires artists to awkwardly hold a physical drawing tablet in one hand and a stylus in the other, all while wearing a Magic Leap One and tangled with the headset’s awkward cable tether.
The completely wireless MX Ink stylus appears to offer artists greater freedom of movement and convenience, and Logitech has announced compatibility with a number of Meta Quest apps, including AdAdobe Substance 3D Modeler, Open Brush, Gravity Sketch, and Realize Medical.
While Logitech hasn’t yet provided an exact launch date for the $129.99 MX Ink, it’s promising a release “later this year” and will be available through Logitech, Meta, and Amazon.
