Oculus is buying a company that brings hands into virtual reality

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http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/c57b212b86cd08734f74803c0b521571/201029686/nimblesenselead.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/11/oculus-nimble-vr/)Right now, the term "virtual reality" still means "headset" for most people. What we should really think when we read "virtual reality" is first-person immersion. The headset -- like Oculus VR's Rift, Sony's Project Morpheus, and Samsung's Gear VR -- is simply the first tool for creating that sense of immersion or "presence (http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/18/valve-vr-steam-dev-days/)." But once you're in a headset, the first things you do are the undoable: reach out with your physical hands into virtual reality. It's not exactly surprising, then, that Oculus VR would acquire Nimble VR -- the company behind Nimble Sense (http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/04/nimble-sense-hands-on/), a camera and software combo that brings the world around you into virtual reality. Think of it likeKinect (http://www.engadget.com/tag/kinect): cameras that are able to track your skeletal movement and create a point cloud around you, which then translate that data into a virtual representation on-the-fly.
Still confused? We've got a video hands-on of Nimble VR's Sense camera from early November below the break, used in-tandem with Oculus VR's second Rift development kit (pictured above).

http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/11/oculus-nimble-vr/