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Real control is in your hands. The first 3D sensor system for gaming controllers that eliminates gyro drift, gets rid of the sensor bar — and never needs calibration.

Wireless gaming controllers spend a shocking amount of time taking players out of the game. Controlled by a 6-axis module with accelerometer and gyro, they suffer loss of heading, pointing inaccuracies and drift problems, and need frequent timeouts for recalibration.

The SpacePoint® 3D sensor system dramatically improves game play and eliminates the problems caused by  loss of heading and gyro drift. With its 9-axis sensor module and Motion Tracking Engine, it delivers consistent readings and better data accuracy, enabling more satisfying gameplay. No resetting, no out-of-alignment pointing. and no annoying drift requiring game designers to build in pauses for recalibration.

SpacePoint’s Motion Tracking Engine™ software fuses data from a 9-axis sensor suite, incorporating PNI’s new Reference Magnetic Sensor with military-grade Kalman filtering algorithms.

9-axis measurement
  9-axis measurement (3:3:3)
  Motion tracking   Motion Tracking
Low Latency
  Low Latency     Module

Developers get reliability and consistency - no resetting, no calibration timeouts, no out-of-alignment pointing - enabling best-selling first-person-shooter games.

Features

One-piece solution
 
Low latency
No need to install a sensor bar or camera   Below human perception
     
Proprietary Kalman filtering algorithms
 
Motion-tracking engine outputs are Quaternion
Fuses sensor outputs into reliable orientation data  
     
9 axes of motion tracking
 
API library
3-axis magnetometer, 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer   Seamless integration into your design
     

 

What is SpacePoint for Gaming?

The SpacePoint 3D Sensor System consists of 3 separate sensors that are driven by PNI’s Motion Tracking Engine.

A complete Space Point 3D Sensor System requires:

  • Three 3-axis sensors
  • PNI’s new patented Reference Magnetic Sensor*
  • A 3-axis accelerometer
  • A 3-axis gyro
  • SpacePoint’s Motion Tracking Engine™ software, including
  • Hardware Reference Design*
  • Application programming interface (API) with proprietary algorithms*

*Available only from PNI.