Logitech

Logitech
Information
Type	Public
Industry	Computer peripherals, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality
Founded	October 2, 1981
Founder	Daniel Borel, Pierluigi Zappacosta, Giacomo Marini
Headquarters	Lausanne, Switzerland (operational headquarters in California)
Notable Personnel	Hanneke Faber (CEO)
Products	Mixed reality styluses, VR audio, keyboards, webcams, peripherals
Parent	Logitech International S.A.
Website	https://www.logitech.com

Logitech (legally Logitech International S.A.) is a Swiss-American company that designs computer peripherals and software. It was founded on October 2, 1981 in Apples, in the Swiss canton of Vaud, by Daniel Borel, Pierluigi Zappacosta, and Giacomo Marini, and is best known for mice, keyboards, webcams, and gaming gear sold under the Logitech and Logitech G brands. The company keeps its registered head office in Lausanne, Switzerland and an operational headquarters in California, and its shares trade on both the SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and the Nasdaq (LOGI). In its 2025 fiscal year the company reported roughly 4.55 billion US dollars in revenue and had about 7,300 employees, with Hanneke Faber serving as chief executive officer.

Within Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality, Logitech is mainly an accessory maker rather than a headset manufacturer. Its XR-related products include the VR Ink Pilot Edition, a six-degrees-of-freedom stylus for SteamVR; the MX Ink, a mixed reality stylus for Meta Quest headsets; the Chorus off-ear audio attachment for the Meta Quest 2; and earlier work on bringing physical keyboards into VR through the Logitech BRIDGE software development kit.

History

Logitech grew out of the early personal computer mouse business. Borel and Zappacosta met in California while studying at Stanford University in the late 1970s, and in 1981 they acquired distribution rights for a mouse designed in Switzerland. The Logitech name, derived from the French word for software (logiciel) joined with "tech," came into use later in the decade, and over the following years the company expanded from input devices into webcams, audio, gaming peripherals, and video collaboration hardware.

The company's first notable step into VR came in 2017, when it worked with HTC on the Logitech BRIDGE software development kit for the HTC Vive. BRIDGE used a Vive Tracker mounted to a Logitech G gaming keyboard so that a virtual copy of the keyboard, and the user's hands, would appear inside VR, making it easier to type without removing the headset. The kit was distributed to developers and worked with SteamVR applications.

Logitech later returned to keyboard-in-VR with Meta. In April 2021, when Oculus added support for tracked physical keyboards, the Logitech K830 became the first keyboard to receive official tracked-typing support on the Quest 2, letting users see and use the keyboard from inside VR.

VR Ink Pilot Edition

Logitech revealed the VR Ink Pilot Edition on May 29, 2019 and described it as a stylus built for art and design in VR. The stylus used SteamVR Tracking (compatible with 1.0 and 2.0 base stations) to provide six-degrees-of-freedom positioning, so it could be used both for drawing in mid-air and, thanks to a pressure-sensitive tip, for drawing against physical surfaces such as a table with sensitivity comparable to a tablet digitizer. It weighed about 68 grams and carried a pressure-sensitive button, a clickable two-dimensional touch strip, menu and system buttons, side grab buttons, and integrated haptics, with Logitech quoting more than 2.5 hours of battery life.

The product was aimed at enterprises using VR for digital design rather than at consumers. It went up for pre-order at 750 US dollars (with an optional A1-sized drawing mat at about 70 US dollars) and was expected to ship around February 2020. Logitech listed compatibility with professional creation tools including Gravity Sketch, Tilt Brush, VRED, Mindesk, Vector Suite, MARUI (a Maya plugin), IrisVR, and Flyingshapes, along with planned SDK support for Unreal Engine and Unity.

MX Ink

In September 2024 Logitech released the MX Ink, which it billed as the first mixed reality stylus designed specifically for Meta Quest. Announced and made available on September 25, 2024, the stylus is compatible with the Meta Quest 3, Quest 3S, and Quest 2, and is positioned for navigating, annotating, and creating across both flat 2D surfaces (paper, desks, whiteboards) and immersive 3D environments. The pen is light (around 29 grams) and uses a pressure-sensitive tip whose middle button changes line thickness with how hard the user presses, plus three buttons near the tip reachable with the thumb or index finger, and haptic feedback meant to mimic the feel of a real brush on canvas. Hidden infrared LEDs keep tracking stable even when the hand partly blocks the headset's view, and the MX Ink was the first accessory to let a Meta Quest headset pair more than two controllers at once, so users can switch between the stylus and the standard Touch Plus controllers without interrupting their work.

Logitech sold the stylus on its own for 129.99 US dollars, in a combo with the MX Inkwell charging dock for 169.99 US dollars, and offered a companion MX Mat writing surface for 49.99 US dollars. The MX Ink works with more than 17 Quest apps, including creative tools such as Gravity Sketch, Vermillion, and Figmin XR, quotes up to about 7 hours of battery life, and ships with developer support, with Logitech inviting creators to apply for a developer kit or use its GitHub page for integration.

Chorus VR audio

Logitech introduced the Chorus on August 17, 2022 as an off-ear audio attachment built specifically for the Meta Quest 2. Rather than earbuds or over-ear cups, Chorus uses open-back speakers that hover just over the ears, an approach similar to the integrated audio on the Valve Index, so the wearer keeps some awareness of their surroundings and avoids issues like ear sweat during active play. The drivers clip onto the headset and connect through a USB-C passthrough cable into the Quest 2's power port, so there is no separate battery to charge, and the earcups can be rotated up and out of the way for a flip-to-mute effect. Reviewers noted that Chorus delivered louder, crisper sound than the Quest 2's built-in speakers, and the product launched at 99.99 US dollars.

Products

Product	Year	Type	Notable details
Logitech BRIDGE SDK	2017	Keyboard-in-VR developer kit	For the HTC Vive; used a Vive Tracker on a Logitech G keyboard to show the keyboard and hands inside VR
VR Ink Pilot Edition	2019 (announced), 2020 (ship)	SteamVR stylus	6DoF SteamVR Tracking; pressure-sensitive tip; ~68 g; enterprise design tool; 750 US dollars
Logitech K830 (Quest support)	2021	Tracked keyboard	First keyboard with official tracked-typing support on the Meta Quest 2
Logitech Chorus	2022	VR audio attachment	Off-ear open-back speakers for the Meta Quest 2; USB-C passthrough, no battery; flip-to-mute; 99.99 US dollars
Logitech MX Ink	2024	Mixed reality stylus	For Meta Quest 3 / 3S / 2; ~29 g; pressure-sensitive tip, three buttons, haptics; 129.99 US dollars

Market position

In the broader peripherals market Logitech is one of the largest makers of mice, keyboards, and webcams, and its hardware is widely used alongside PC VR setups even when it is not VR-specific. Within XR proper the company has chosen to compete through accessories and input tools, such as the VR Ink and MX Ink styluses and the Chorus audio attachment, rather than by building headsets of its own. Its repeated focus on precise input (styluses, tracked keyboards) reflects a position aimed at productivity and creative VR use, where it partners with platform holders like HTC and Meta rather than producing a full headset platform.