Today I mounted my single Rift camera up high, like 6 1/2 feet up, looking out at the room, and a little downward. And with just the one camera I can walk everywhere within my livingroom that my Rift cable can reach, and the headset seems always perfectly tracked, whether going towards or away from the sensor, or to the side. I tested by just walking around in Oculus Home, in the Dreamdeck demos, and New Retro Arcade Neon. I'll of course need more cameras to track hand controllers without anything being blocked, but it wasn't controllers people used to doubt, but room scale itself.
They were Vive fanboys, and ROOMSCALE! ROOMSCALE! ROOMSCALE! was Valve's whole marketing message for the Vive. Therefore they couldn't allow themselves to believe that the Rift could do it too.
There still are. I literally just got told by an idiot on YouTube that the Rift can't do roomscale 5 minutes ago. And then when I disproved him his response was, "well I've had both and vive is better fuck you."
I think even now a lot of people are worried about occlusion issues with Touch. There's also the argument that the Vive is better because Oculus recommends an extra sensor for room scale whereas HTC includes everything needed for it.
