IEEE 3069-2024
IEEE Recommended Practice for Consumer AR/VR Handheld‐Controller Location Technology Based on Active Infrared Optics
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IEEE 3069-2024 is a recommended practice focused on consumer AR/VR handheld-controller location technology based on active infrared optics. It addresses how controller position tracking can be implemented and evaluated in immersive systems where accurate motion sensing affects interaction quality, responsiveness, and user experience. By narrowing in on optical location methods for handheld controllers, this standard supports more consistent engineering choices across products that rely on communication, photonics, and embedded device technologies.
Overview of IEEE 3069-2024
This standard provides a technical framework for consumer augmented reality and virtual reality controller location systems that use active infrared optics. IEEE 3069-2024 is relevant to product design and assessment where optical emitters, sensors, and tracking algorithms work together to determine controller position in real time. It is useful for teams that need a common reference for location technology behavior, system integration, and performance expectations in handheld input devices used with AR/VR platforms.
Typical use cases
IEEE 3069-2024 commonly applies to AR/VR headsets and companion controllers that depend on active infrared tracking for spatial input. It may be used when developing consumer gaming systems, immersive training equipment, or interactive demonstration devices that require reliable handheld-controller location data. The standard is also relevant during validation of optical tracking modules, controller enclosure design around emitters and receivers, and integration work where photonics and electronics must support stable motion capture.
Why it matters
For manufacturers and buyers, IEEE 3069-2024 helps create clearer expectations for controller location technology in consumer immersive systems. That can support better design control, more consistent testing, and easier comparison between implementations that use active infrared optics. In practice, a defined recommended practice can reduce integration risk, improve tracking consistency, and help procurement teams specify location-performance capabilities with greater confidence. IEEE 3069-2024 is therefore valuable wherever repeatable controller positioning is important.
- Consumer AR/VR handheld-controller tracking
- Active infrared optical location methods
- System integration and validation
- Performance consistency for immersive input devices
- Publication Date: 2025
- Standard Status: Active
- Publisher: IEEE
- Subject: Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies; Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems; Computing and Processing; Photonics and Electrooptics
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- This Version: 3069 (2025)
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