Oculus Touch

Oculus Touch
Basic Info
Type	Input Device, Motion Tracker
Subtype	Hands/Fingers Tracking, Haptics
Platform	Oculus Rift
Developer	Oculus VR
Release Date	2016
Website	https://www.oculus.com/en-us/rift/
System
Operating System	Windows, Mac, Linux
Storage
Display
Image
Optics
Tracking
Audio
Connectivity
Device

Oculus Touch is the first unique Input Device for the Oculus Rift. One Oculus Touch controller is held in each hand. These devices are wireless and motion tracked by the same positional tracking sensor that tracks the Rift HMD. In addition to traditional gamepad controls such as analog stick, buttons and triggers, Oculus Touch is able to detect hand gestures and provides haptic feeback.

Oculus Touch was revealed alongside Oculus Rift CV1, on June 11, 2015 during Oculus VR's Pre-E3 Special Live Event.

Features

• Hand presence

• Manipulation - precise manipulation of virtual objects

• Low mental load

• Communicative gestures - for social interactions.

• Transitional inputs -

• Lightweight -

Hardware

One Oculus Touch is held in each hand. Some of its features are similar to a traditional gamepad. It has 1 analog stick and 2 buttons on top and 2 triggers on its front and side.

Both devices are tracked by the same positional tracking sensor that tracks the HMD. They utilize the same IR LED tracking technology.

The device has an inward facing sensor matrix that can detect hand gestures.

History

Oculus Touch's codename while in development was Half Moon.