Echo Arena wants to be one of VR's first esports hits.

A year later, what Oculus Touch has meant for VR

The Oculus Touch controllers debuted a year ago today, enabling players to eschew a traditional gamepad while using the Rift headset. In VR, this has become an expected way of interaction, whether you’re using the Touch or HTC Vive controllers. To mark the occasion, Oculus has released the beta version of Rift Core 2.0, an update to the Rift user interface that streamlines navigation.

Looking back at the 2016 and 2017, Oculus vice president of content Jason Rubin says that VR developers have made strides in working out the key issue in VR: locomotion. It’s still a big hurdle moving forward, but some games have come up with clever solves in the last year and a half.

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