A few days ago, Oculus announced that Oculus Touch handle will be officially released on December 6, priced at 199 US dollars. Yesterday, Oculus once again brought us good news. After adding additional cameras, this controller will have 360-degree tracking and room-scale tracking capabilities.
The Oculus Touch camera has 4 configurations:
One front camera: sitting/standing gamepad experience
Two Front Cameras: Standing Lightly Touch Touch Experience
2 relative cameras: Standing 360-degree Touch experience
3 cameras with triangle layout: room-scale touch experience
Prior to the conference last week, Oculus first announced the first two camera configurations, the official said the front camera settings are the most practical, and most popular users. With so many camera configurations, I don't know if it will make users confused.
It's worth noting that the Oculus Touch controller, which will be available in December, will only include an additional tracking camera. If users want to experience room-scale tracking, they will need to purchase an additional two cameras for $80.
The phrase Room Scale, created by HTC and Valve, refers to tracking the position of the head-mounted user in a specific space, allowing them to move around and copying the action into the game. Room scale function is the killer of HTC Vive, but as early as February of this year, Oculus has said that adding two camera sensors, Touch handle can also achieve room tracking.
Placing the two cameras facing one another in the room allows the user to achieve a better 360-degree experience, but there is a small problem here. If the camera is placed too far away from the Oculus Rift, there will be problems with tag recognition. If we add a camera, that is, a total of three cameras, we can achieve 360-degree room-scale space tracking.
Originally in the 3 VR devices, Oculus Rift experience prices seem lower than the HTC Vive (600 US dollars), but now plus Oculus Touch (200 US dollars) and 2 additional cameras (80 US dollars), you want to get with HTC Vive At the same level of experience, users need to spend 880 US dollars.