Overlaid Videos Show Just how Accurate Oculus Touch Controls Are

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Paul James
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Oculus Touch tech demonstration ‘Toybox’ made its public video debut a couple of days ago and highlighted the sheer fun that can be had in VR with intuitive motion controllers. The videos used a side-by-side in-game and real-world POV technique to illustrate how Touch can be used and in this latest video, those views are overlaid on top of eachother. It illustrates quite elegently the accuracy with which Oculus’ Touch controllers respond to real-world input.

Thanks to Scott McGregor for creating the video.

See Also: Hands-on: Oculus Touch is an Elegant Extension of your Hand for Touching Virtual Worlds

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Paul James
Based in the UK, Paul has been immersed in interactive entertainment for the best part of 27 years and has followed advances in gaming with a passionate fervour. His obsession with graphical fidelity over the years has had him branded a ‘graphics whore’ (which he views as the highest compliment) more than once and he holds a particular candle for the dream of the ultimate immersive gaming experience. Having followed and been disappointed by the original VR explosion of the 90s, he then founded RiftVR.com to follow the new and exciting prospect of the rebirth of VR in products like the Oculus Rift. Paul joined forces with Ben to help build the new Road to VR in preparation for what he sees as VR’s coming of age over the next few years.
  • kalqlate

    Very impressive! It will probably take a neural interface to get touch and force-feedback working believably, but various amounts of mechanical buzz and a 3-axis opposing gyroscope would help for now.

  • guestmang

    From my perspective I thought the video was showing how inaccurate it was.. You can see the discrepancies between the real hand and the virtual.

  • asdfggg

    Cool.