10 Things You Need To Know About Oculus Rift

4. What's Oculus Touch?

The Oculus Touch is an alternative to using the Xbox One controller, but you'll have to pay extra to get it. These devices are small round joysticks that wrap around your hands and are tracked using the external camera, with several buttons and even a trigger. It will allow you gesture and pick up objects in VR by tracking your fingers with hand-tracking technology will lets you manipulate objects in virtual reality, alongside making life-like hand gestures. Unfortunately, there's no set launch date for the Touch, but a blog post from Oculus made on December 31st, 2015, said that Touch would appear in 'the second half of 2016'. The only remaining piece of the puzzle is how much it will cost and there's no news on that yet, but considering the sheer scale of technology inside the Touch, it is going to be slightly more expensive than your standard controller. Oculus said that it's 'made significant advances in ergonomics, and we€™re implementing many changes that make Touch even more comfortable, reliable, and natural. We€™re also implementing changes that improve hand pose recognition'. In other words, it's going to be pricey.
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