Oculus teases VR card battler similar to Yu-Gi-Oh: ‘Get ready for something even better’

Humans have played cards since the 9th century Imperial China, and we might keep doing it even when we upload our brains into virtual reality.

Oculus VR, the Facebook subsidiary working on the Rift virtual reality head-mounted display, is teasing a new card battler. In a message on Twitter, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey talked about a storyline in the animated Yu-Gi-Oh television program from the late 1990s that featured characters playing a magical card game in VR. Luckey told his followers that they should expect something like that but “even better.” This likely means that Oculus or one of its partners is building a VR experience where people can play something like Yu-Gi-Oh: Trading Card Game, Magic: The Gathering, or Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, the No. 1 digital card game in the world.