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CNET News - Oculus Touch controllers gets your hands into VR games

2015-06-11
this is oculus touch these are going to take virtual reality gaming to the next level come on let's clap let's do it ah-ha oculus touch is a pair of track controllers that we've created to take VR to the next level there's two controllers one for each hand you have two hands they're mirror images of each other like the two hands that you have their wireless so you can move and interact in the virtual world freely unencumbered by cables they have integrated high precision low latency six degree-of-freedom track six degree of freedom tracking leveraging the same constellation trash tracking technology that we use in the rift along with integrated inertial measurement units now each of these Halfmoon controllers has a traditional analog thumb stick two buttons and an analog trigger but they also have something else that we call the hand trigger you can see the trigger right there under my middle finger imagine using this to pick up a virtual gun and then using your index finger to fire it touch also includes haptics the developers can use to deliver feedback when you're interacting with objects in the virtual world so you can actually feel the things that you're touching finally though touch can detect a set of finger poised using a matrix of Center sensors mounted throughout the inside of the device together they work to recognize natural hand poses like pointing waving or giving a thumbs up
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