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Oculus Touch is the wireless input system for virtual reality

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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SAN FRANCISCO — Oculus VR announced its virtual reality headset — and you’re going to use its Oculus Touch input system to navigate its virtual worlds.

The new code-named Half Moon controllers are ring-shaped devices that fit in your hands and connect wirelessly with the headset and a personal computer. They will deliver “hand presence,” or the capability to pick up a gun in a virtual reality simulation and fire it effortlessly, without thinking too much about it, said Palmer Luckey, the founder of the Oculus VR division of Facebook.

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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.