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Oculus Touch controllers will ship by end of 2016

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that his company’s virtual reality division will ship the Oculus Touch controllers by the end of 2016. That’s on-track for the company’s promised (but delayed) schedule for the essential tools for navigating VR with the Oculus Rift VR headset. Update: Oculus Touch launches December 6 for $200.

Zuckerberg acknowledged that the company has had a “bit of a slow start” with the Oculus Rift when it debuted in March in limited quantities. But he said it is on-track now. And while he did not disclose numbers, he said that more than 1 million people use VR every month (which could be a reference to the whole industry, such as the HTC Vive for PC and Samsung Gear for mobile, not just Oculus).

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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.