Oculus Touch
The delayed Oculus Touch controllers for the Oculus
Rift VR headset have finally received an official price and release date today.
The Oculus Touch will cost US$ 199. You'll be able to pre-order starting on
October 10, but shipping will only start on December 6.
Those exact same dates (for pre-orders and release)
apply to the newly-announced Oculus Earphones too. These are in-ear headphones
that you can purchase separately in order to use with your Oculus Rift. They
will cost US$ 49 and Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe thinks they're among the highest-end
earphones in the world. They have advanced noise isolation and drivers
optimized for VR, whatever that may mean.
If you add up the price of the Oculus Touch to that
of the Rift itself, you essentially arrive at the exact amount that HTC is
charging for its Vive VR headset with its wand controllers, namely US$ 799. So
that's some head to head competition right there for you.
The Touch consists of two controllers, one for each
of your hands. Each of them comes with a second motion sensor enabling
room-scale tracking, similar to the HTC Vive again. These sensors will be sold
separately too, for US$ 79 a pop. The Touch lets you control your avatar's hand
movements in VR - waving, punching, picking things up, finger gestures, it
doesn't matter, they're all supported.
