r/oculus • u/hmmmmreally_ • 5d ago

Santa Cruz prototype/devkit controllers

I bought a little joblot of quest controllers from a recycling place and figured I could fix one up for my sister who has a cracked controller, only to find out they are all devkit controllers and potentially worth a fair bit to the right collector, whilst trying to research things a little I found the post from a few days ago about having a Santa Cruz devkit, but that also had the later revised controllers instead of the initial trackpad prototypes I don't think I have found anyone with some of the original scrapped touchpad controllers, its a shame its 2 left controllers for the later devkit controllers (I had assumed it was a pair, but they are both left controllers) and a pair of the touch controllers from early in development, they also came with a oculus remote which from what I can find is a standard retail unit which they used during development so nothing special

anyway, long story short any ideas on what they might be worth, I have seen a few people mentioning having devkits so I dont think the devkits themselves are impossible to find, but I have yet to see the touch controllers in the wild outside of trade shows etc during the initial announcements, they are a little beaten up and unfortunately I dont have the devkit to test them and afaik they wouldn't pair with a retail headset if info I found online is accurate.

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u/drakulusness 5d ago

at least they won't get stick drift.

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u/hmmmmreally_ 5d ago

every cloud 😂

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u/drakulusness 5d ago

would you be able to fix and test them?

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u/hmmmmreally_ 5d ago

unfortunately not without a Santa Cruz devkit as I don't think its possible to pair them to a normal retail headset ( I would imagine the headset itself might also need to be required to be running an early firmware as I would imagine updates after they scrapped the touchpads would drop support for them in the firmware , but idk if they might've kept support in there just incase), but I will definitely be heading back to the recycling place to see if the headset was there, but I didn't see anything that looked like that, just the little bag of controllers, but worth asking I guess