Oculus Quest has no wires, so you can play tennis in VR without tripping.
Oculus Quest has no wires, so you can play tennis in VR without tripping.
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Oculus Quest hands-on — The freedom of playing tennis in VR without wires

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Facebook showed a demo of its new Oculus Quest virtual reality headset on Wednesday, and it could be quite liberating because it gets rid of those pesky wires that have kept VR tethered.

The Oculus Quest will arrive as a standalone product — you won’t need to connect it to a computer to play with it — for $400 in the spring of 2019. But I got a chance to play hands-on with it today at the Oculus Connect 5 event in San Jose, California. I played against Kellee Santiago of Google in the video embedded in this post, and it was like playing Wii Sports Tennis, but in VR.

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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.