The base stations enable immersion in the encompassing virtual reality, as they capture the spatial position of the headset and controllers. This includes wireless synchronization. With the Lighthouse base station, the position of the Vive headset and controllers is tracked and synchronized wirelessly. The system operates with millimeter precision, and the black box is equipped with a surface of infrared LEDs and two lasers, one of which is responsible for the vertical axis and the other for the horizontal axis.