OpenPaw Labs
We’re a tiny lab in Utah making open-source hardware for VR.
We built what we needed
We spent months trying to get full-body tracking. Everything was sold out, deep in a preorder waitlist, or a DIY guide that assumed you already knew what you were doing. Eventually we gave up on buying a set and built one instead.
Our friends saw it and wanted their own. So we wrote up a guide, ordered more boards, and somewhere in there it stopped being a favor for friends and started being a company.
OpenPaw Labs started in January 2026. Six months of board revisions and guide rewrites later, we launched in July. We’re a two-person team led by Puppy Sky, and we were part of this community long before we sold anything to it.
Freely giving back
An open paw holds something out for someone else to take. We named the company after the gesture.
Community-first generosity
Our hardware designs are open source, our guides are free, and improvements get contributed back upstream. Anything we figure out, the community gets to keep.
Fun outside, serious inside
While we may be cute and silly, our company is not. Every board gets tested, documented, and tracked through revisions before it ships.
Be who you want to be
Full-body tracking makes your avatar move the way you do. For a lot of people, that's the difference between playing a character and being yourself.
The designs we build on came from creators before us, and we credit them everywhere it counts. What we add stays just as open.
Supporting Trans Lifeline
We’re part of the trans community, and we want it to have all the support it needs.
5% of every order goes to Trans Lifeline, a peer-support hotline run by and for trans people.
Whatever the community needs next
We don’t have a grand roadmap, and that’s on purpose. We started because trackers were hard to get and make. The plan going forward is the same one: if there is something the community can’t easily get or make, we will tinker in the lab until we’ve figured it out, then publish everything.
Made and tested in Utah
The bare PCBs come from a fab. Everything else happens at our lab in Utah: we write the guides, design the boards, flash them, and test every single one before it ships.
Join the community
The Discord is where our builds get shown off, questions get answered, and new projects show up first. Come hang out. Lurking is fine too.