Oculus’s Virtual-Reality Headset to Simulate Touch, Gestures
The touch controllers unveiled Thursday by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey are designed to enable people to pick up guns, throw Frisbees or carry out other actions within the fantasy scenes they see through a virtual reality headset called the Rift. The controllers also will make it possible to point, wave inside the video games being played on the Rift, according to Luckey.
The half-moon shaped controllers, called Oculus Touch, will be showcased along with the Rift headset next week in Los Angeles at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, a major video game conference.
It's a lightweight device that will fit on top of a person's head like a helmet.
The Rift's price hasn't been announced yet, although Oculus has previously said the headset and a personal computer need to power the technology will cost less than $1,500. The Rift package will also include a wireless controller and adapter for the new alliance with Microsoft, which is branching into another emerging niche of technology niche known as "augmented" reality with its own HoloLens headset.
The Rift's initial target market will be avid video game players.
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