Oculus VR has revealed the first consumer version of its Oculus Rift headset.
According to Oculus, this version of Rift accommodates glasses better than past iterations, is lightweight, and features removeable headphones so you can use your own.
It comes with a tracking sensor on a stand and a wireless Xbox One controller that only works with Windows 10. The Rift will work natively with Windows 10, and games will be able to be streamed from an Xbox One into the Rift’s virtual cinema via Microsoft’s upcoming OS.
Oculus also unveiled the optional Rift Touch controller, a wireless controller for each hand that can detect a variety of inputs including “hand presence", "manipulation", and "communicative gestures".
Oculus VP of product Nate Mitchell told PC Gamer that a matrix of sensors inside the Touch detect where you fingers are.
"It's relatively basic in terms of – we're not talking about knowing exactly where all your fingers are – but for the basic gestures that Palmer talked about, whether we're talking about pointing, or the hand trigger that we have to like pick up things, and that sort of stuff... it enables a pretty cool set of hand poses that do make it really effortless to pick up stuff in the world, toss it, and do those kinds of actions that you can't do with a gamepad."
The Rift will launch in the first quarter of next year, with the Touch coming slightly afterward.


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