Hello Oculus fans!
It seems Oculus has been
working on a virtual boundary system for a while and it seems it will be included with the Oculus PC SDK 1.8.
It will benefit both VR with gamepad and will also benefit those who purchased the Oculus Touch. As with other VR setups, you would need to calibrate your Oculus then jump right in. An interesting part in the article "
[...]one thing we don’t expect the company to address is whether or not Valve’s pending patent for Chaperone (or more specifically, “Sensory feedback systems and methods for guiding users in virtual reality environments“) might present any issue to Oculus[...]".
Hope this doesn't affect Oculus' plans to release 1.8. Wouldn't be fun to learn they can't because of this. Also interesting is HTC Vive's Chaperone works fine with the Rift so there shouldn't be any worries.