Logitech has announced its first foray into the VR hardware space with the MX Ink Stylus, a tool designed for 3D drawing and painting on the Meta Quest 3. The MX Ink Stylus is a familiar-looking sketching tool that seamlessly integrates with the Quest controller, significantly expanding the creative capabilities of the popular Quest 3 VR headset. This new stylus is also compatible with the Quest Pro and Quest 2, supporting a variety of VR painting and sculpting applications including Gravity Sketch, PaintingVR, OpenBrush, ShapesXR, GestureVR, Arkio, and Engage XR. Additionally, if you connect your Quest to a VR-ready PC, you can utilize the MX Ink Stylus with software such as Adobe’s Substance Modeler and Elucis by Realize Medical. While you can use a Meta Quest controller for drawing, painting, and sculpting, a stylus offers a more natural and intuitive experience. As a leading computer accessory manufacturer, Logitech’s Bluetooth keyboards, trackpads, and mice already work seamlessly with Meta’s VR headsets, further solidifying the Quest 3’s potential as a laptop replacement. Logitech has incorporated a replaceable, pressure-sensitive tip into the MX Ink Stylus, allowing for artistic nuance when drawing in 2D. The MX Ink Stylus features adjustable pressure curves, providing users with greater control over line thickness and stroke variations. Logitech also offers the MX Mat as a complementary drawing surface, designed to enhance the overall artistic experience. Furthermore, the stylus includes haptics to provide realistic feedback, simulating the feeling of drawing on various surfaces. Unlike a standard digital art stylus, the MX Ink Stylus offers 6 degrees of freedom, allowing users to rotate, lift, and move the virtual pencil freely in space. This enables artists to create 3D models with greater precision and control. The MX Ink Stylus even allows users to trace over physical objects in mixed reality, creating virtual representations with ease. The MX Ink Stylus is equipped with customizable buttons, featuring adjustable activation force and double-tap timing. These features provide users with personalized control over their artistic workflow. To ensure the stylus is always ready for inspiration, Logitech has created the MX Ink Well, a dedicated charging base that keeps the stylus fully powered. The Logitech MX Ink Stylus, along with its charging base, appears to be a well-designed solution for the growing community of VR artists and designers. While a definitive verdict awaits a hands-on review later this year, early indications point towards a promising offering. The Logitech MX Ink Stylus will be available at Meta Connect in September, potentially alongside a new Quest 3s headset, for a price of $130.
Logitech Launches MX Ink Stylus for 3D Drawing and Painting in Meta Quest 3
