{"id":773,"date":"2016-01-01T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T14:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/oculus-pushes-touch-release-date-to-second-half-of-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T14:22:50","slug":"oculus-pushes-touch-release-date-to-second-half-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/oculus-pushes-touch-release-date-to-second-half-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculus pushes Touch release date to second half of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oculus-touch\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzAxL2E2L09jdWx1c1RvdWNoLjE4ZmU5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/8acb382e\/364\/Oculus-Touch.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Oculus+pushes+Touch+release+date+to+second+half+of+2016&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F01%2Foculus-touch-delay%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F01%2Foculus-touch-delay%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/06\/19\/oculus-touch-hands-on\/#n5zbF4iBLuqc?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">Touch<\/a>, the hand-held VR controller from Oculus VR, will not be shipping together with the first Oculus Rift units, which are expected to ship in the first quarter of 2016. Instead, Touch will become available in the second half of 2016<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the path to perfecting Touch, we\u2019ve decided that we need more time before release, and we\u2019ll now be shipping Touch in the second half of 2016. Pre-orders will open a few months prior to launch,&#8221; the company said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/en-us\/blog\/update-on-oculus-touch-ship-date\/\">blog post<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/06\/19\/oculus-touch-hands-on\/\">Grab on to virtual reality and hold tight with the Oculus Touch<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oculus says the Touch has been delayed due to the company making &#8220;significant advances&#8221; in ergonomics, as well as &#8220;implementing many changes that make Touch even more comfortable, reliable, and natural.&#8221; Hand pose recognition will also be improved, the company claims <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/01\/oculus-touch-delay\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/touch\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Touch<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/gadgets\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gadgets<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/oculus-touch\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Oculus Touch<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/delay\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Delay<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/uBLQWYKkFfU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touch, the hand-held VR controller from Oculus VR, will not be shipping together with the first Oculus Rift units, which are expected to ship in the first quarter of 2016. Instead, Touch will become available in the second half of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/oculus-pushes-touch-release-date-to-second-half-of-2016\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,206,207,1,37,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delay","category-gadgets","category-oculus-touch","category-other","category-tech","category-touch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}