How SteamVR games can run on Oculus Touch and Rift

Last week, UploadVR let you know about 10 great SteamVR games that work well with the Rift and Touch by default. Now that the Touch controllers have officially released into the world, we decided to tackle the topic in a bit more detail. How well do the Oculus Touch controllers work with SteamVR apps that are only designed with Vive in mind? Is anything unplayable? What are the common hiccups and limitations? Is it even worth buying things that may or may not get official support?

First of all, calm down, because that’s a lot of questions. Second of all, I’ll be sure to answer them as best I can. It’s impossible to test each and every game on Steam using Touch simply because there are nearly 1,000 VR supported games and applications on Steam right now, over 800 of which feature some type of tracked motion controller support. Of those 800, all of them support the HTC Vive officially, whereas only 180 support the Oculus Rift. Of those, not all of them are optimized for Touch, but rather may be optimized for the Razer Hydra, or another third-party peripheral.