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Describe your First (or Worst) Time Smackin' Your Touch Into Things

CrashFu
Consultant
Second session with Touch, got into the VR Sports and was playing the Hockey game. Got a liiiiiittle too eager to swat an incoming puck and punched my right-hand Touch into a desk.   Had to scrub it like hell with rubbing alcohol and paper towels (I hope the right choice?) to get the white paint mark off, but there's still a scuff/scar in the plastic, as you can see here:

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Merely cosmetic damage, of course.  Touch controls are indestructible, practically speaking :+1:

Incidentally, this made me realize just how ingenious the Touch's ring/cuff shaped design is.   That outer ring will definitely protect your hand if you swing into something, and likely absorbs impacts enough to protect more sensitive parts in the handle / face of the controls, whereas (to my knowledge) there's nothing important IN the ring itself except for the internal IR lights.

How about you guys?  Photos of any related damage are encouraged.
It's hard being the voice of reason when you're surrounded by unreasonable people.
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falken76
Expert Consultant
no problem, I'm glad you got it working again  🙂

Log_a_Frog
Heroic Explorer
Í am going to play VR outside now. I have banned myself from playing inside.
NOw that Health and Safety Warning finally makes sense. =D

eightbitjuan
Protege
I ended up punching my wall while playing Superhot. This was entirely my fault as I forgot to set up Guardian again after I moved one of the sensors  😄
CPU: i7 7700K, GPU: EVGA SC GTX 1070, Mobo: MSI Z270M Mortar, USB: Mobo + Inatec 4 Port Expansion Card, VR: CV1 + Touch + 2 Extra Sensors | Steam Origin Uplay Twitter: eightbitJuan

DavidC
Protege
Playing the Climb and smacking the lampshade above me as I reached to grab a rock.

Yesterday I managed to smack a wall and punch the monitor in Ripcoil. So far no damage to the touch or monitor. I definitely need a larger playspace.

kevink808
Superstar
Man, last night I punched my closet doors and walls playing Superhot.  Now my controllers are both marked up and one has a bunch of white paint on it that I can't get off.  I have to shrink my guardian mapping away from the walls because in a game like Superhot, you get so immersed in the game you don't see the boundaries in time to check your strikes!
Rift-S, Quest 128GB, GO 64GB.

eightbitjuan
Protege
I let my nephew try out the Rift + Touch with Superhot this past Saturday night. I tried explaining to him that time only moves when you move and to take it slow, but he did not heed my warning.

He immediately freaked out and got spooked. This led to him running into my walls multiple times and to knock over some wall art along the way. By night's end, he had cut his heel on an air vent and was morally and physically defeated  😄

(he's fine now)
CPU: i7 7700K, GPU: EVGA SC GTX 1070, Mobo: MSI Z270M Mortar, USB: Mobo + Inatec 4 Port Expansion Card, VR: CV1 + Touch + 2 Extra Sensors | Steam Origin Uplay Twitter: eightbitJuan

PIXELATED
Adventurer
Oculus Teardown

For any brave souls who don't want to send their 'borked' touch back to Oculus and wait for it to return.

Hope there will be an Oculus spares store in 2017?  Maybe there's an entrepreneur out there who wants to start up a business selling parts or offering repairs. I'd do it if I hadn't already spent all my pocket money (-;


Win 10 Pro, GTX 1080, Asus Z170 Deluxe, Nvidia 391.35

XlordB
Adventurer
My right controller has two marks already one small scratch and another pain mark near corner.. was me with the corner one when i walloped the wall trying to play the baseball thingy on vr sports. My gf/s sister got carried away and when trying to hit a ping pong ball with the bat she smashed the controllers together.. to be honest she almost tried to do it again.. i had to take them off her before she hurt someone or herself. lol nothing worse when someones using your kit and not listening to what you say because they think they know it all.. lol even trying to explain the grab buttons she wouldnt let go of the grab button to drop an object after me saying 6 times release the trigger she was standing waving her hand up and down trying to drop the thing in her hand instead of letting go the trigger . lol nutjob 🙂

Blasterpartsguy
Honored Guest
Iv punched a vent on the ceiling and grazed a lightbulb so far.