Nintendo Joy-Cons

# Setup Nintendo Joy-Cons as VR Tracker for Dance Dash

The Joy-Cons are a good way to achieve cheap tracking, especially in combination with a Quest VR headset. The tracking usually works properly and you can use the Quest controllers for the hand notes.

### What you need (download links below)

* A pair of Joy-Cons (i recommend the OLED Joy Cons, I don't know if they really track better, but I have two sets and my feeling is that the OLED Joy Cons work better)
* PC with Bluetooth
* SlimeVR
* SlimeVR Wrangler
* SteamVR & Dance Dash ;)
* Trackstraps for the Joy-Cons (you can use the switch sports straps or the official dance dash quest straps at the picture)

## Setup Joy-Cons as SlimeVR Tracker with SlimeVR Wrangler

### Connect Joy-Cons with PC

- Turn on Bluetooth on your computer.

- Disconnect the Joy-Cons from the Switch.

- Hold the *Sync* button on the Joy-Cons, located between the *SR* and *SL* buttons, until the LED lights start flashing.

- Look for the Joy-Con in your computer’s Bluetooth menu, and select the option to pair it with your device.

### Setup Joy-Cons as VR Tracker

Now that the Joy-Cons are connected to the PC, we can continue with SlimeVR and SlimeVR Wrangler.

* Download and set up SlimeVR
* Download SlimeVR Wrangler
* Start both the SlimeVR server and SlimeVR Wrangler
* Make sure the SlimeVR Server is running, Joy-Cons should be recognized automatically, otherwise press "Search for Joycons" inside SlimeVR Wrangler
* The Joy-Con should show up in the window
* Set up the new tracker in the SlimeVR Server (I recommend attaching them to the knees)

According to the points described, it should look like this in the SlimeVR Wrangler

And you should see the two trackers in SlimeVR, you can then attach them to the position you want.

## SteamVR

Now you can start SteamVR (I recommend Steam Link if you are using a quest). The trackers should be displayed directly in SteamVR:

If everything has worked so far, open your desktop and the SlimeVR window via SteamVR. Here you should reset all positions once so that the tracking works ideally.

## Dance Dash

### First Start

If everything is configured correctly and you start Dance Dash, the trackers should be recognized correctly in the game and it should look like this:

### Settings

You could activate Easy Hits if the tracking doesn't work ideally, but in my test I played with normal settings and it worked well.

### Gameplay

I tested several songs and gave you a scoreboard of Deadbolt on Master. I could have avoided two misses, on one of them the tracking seems to have stopped a bit. But as you can see, it's really good.

### Avatars

It looks like the avatars also work, but I haven't tested that other than this little video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZHKN1H5J-4

## Summary and issues

I think tracking with the Joy-Cons is a really good and cheap way to enable hand and foot tracking in Dance Dash. In my tests, it worked much better than tracking via a webcam, for example.

Problems that can be encountered are that you sometimes have to recalibrate or reset in SlimeVR if the tracking stops, but this can be done relatively quickly via Steam Link. You will need to click "Adjust shoes" ingame, this will be necessary more often, especially with fast songs and quick movements.

In addition, the Joy-Cons don't handle strong rotations and quick turns, but once you get a feel for tracking with the Joy-Cons, you can get through the songs almost perfectly.

In some cases, the entire Bluetooth connection has to be re-established each time.