Lone Echo multiplayer is like Quidditch, Ender’s Game, and Tron in VR

Lone Echo is one of the interesting virtual reality games coming for the Oculus Touch. Set in outer space, it gives you a real feeling of moving through zero gravity on a space station, and it looks like it will have great single-player and multiplayer VR experiences.

This game is part of the wave of exclusive high-end releases coming for VR that will determine whether consumers adopt the Oculus Rift, the VR headset from Facebook’s Oculus division. I previewed it this week at the Oculus Connect event in San Jose, Calif., where the Oculus Touch controllers, which players can hold independently in each hand, were introduced. The title was made exclusively for touch controls, said Dana Jan, game director at Ready At Dawn Studios, in an interview.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.