MX Ink is Logitech’s first 3D stylus for the Meta Quest

Today, Logitech Officially announced its MX Ink stylusThe company’s first mixed reality accessory for the Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets. MX Ink will offer artists a more natural alternative to the Quest’s controllers for content creation that will feel more like using a pencil or paintbrush.

The tracking accuracy and low-latency performance of the MetaQuest’s original controllers have helped establish the headset as more than just a gaming or media consumption device, but controllers, which can feel a bit like holding and working with a can of spray paint, don’t always provide the best interface for content creation. For many artists, a stylus is a better tool than a mouse or peripherals designed primarily for gaming, which is why Companies like Wacom Flourishing for decades and why Logitech is bringing the stylus into the third dimension.

While it’s noticeably thicker than the styluses sold by Logitech for tablet devices (it weighs 29 grams, while the second-generation Apple Pencil weighs 20.7 grams), the MX Ink can be used like a traditional stylus for 2D content creation in mixed reality environments, featuring swappable pressure-sensitive tips and a number of buttons that can be reprogrammed in the Quest’s native Settings app. Leaked over the weekendThe stylus also features 6DoF tracking in 3D space, similar to the Quest’s original controllers, haptic feedback, and pressure-sensitive main buttons, allowing artists to naturally sketch or manipulate models or objects in 3D space.

Logitech promises up to seven 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 dock, which allows the stylus to be simply inserted for charging. However, the dock will be an optional accessory, the price of which has not yet been revealed.

Five years ago, Magic Leap Announces partnership with Wacom to co-develop devices that would allow the latter company’s stylus technology to be used with mixed reality headsets, justifying the expensive Magic Leap One as an essential content creation device.

unfortunately, that cooperation This required artists to awkwardly hold a physical drawing tablet in one hand and a stylus in the other, while also wearing the Magic Leap One and managing the headset’s awkward cable tether.

The fully wireless MX Ink stylus offers artists greater freedom and convenience, and Logitech has already announced its compatibility with several Meta Quest apps, including Adobe Substance 3D Modeler, Open Brush, Gravity Sketch, and Realize Medical.

Although Logitech hasn’t revealed its exact release date $129.99 MX Inc Will be available, it promises a release “later this year” when it will be sold through Logitech, Meta, and Amazon.