This is a bit more of a rant than review, thats why I thought about using the forum for it instead of a blog post.
Couple years ago, I bought slimeVR. As someone who lives in a country where most VR companies don’t sell their stuff directly to(btw, BOOO all of ya massive corporations who won’t bother selling to a 200+ million people market), it was the only viable option, as importing taxes nearly double the price of everything.
I knew it wasn’t going to be perfect, its a glorified accelerometer with basic wifi capabilities and some other stuff, so accuracy won’t ever be perfect, but I wanted fullbody while playing vrchat.
What I couldn’t expect, was all the downsides of it:
- Delivery delays. It took nearly 2 YEARS to finally get my trackers
- Low quality Case. I was lucky my trackers’ case were upgraded before delivery, but originally they were made of a cheap plastic.
- Low quality Hardware. From my experience using, drift is a guarantee constant, certain things(magnetometer) are useless and other things are flat out terrible(ESP-8266EX)
- Low quality Cable. They use a JST 1.25mm to connect between main trackers and their extensions, which breaks with EXTREME ease. I’ve had mine for just 2-3 months and they already are having issues.
- Packaging problems. I bought a 5+3 set(5 main trackers + 3 extensions) and after 2 years of wait, they FORGOT to add the 3 extensions. So I had to wait yet another month and got an extra importing fee charge
So, in my humble opinion, unless you are desperate? DON’T buy slimeVR. And if you have to, either build your own or buy from a 3rd party(thankfully there are many, and by buying local they tend to be cheaper than buying the original ones as I’ve recently learned).
