Oculus Touch launches December 6 for $200

The Oculus Touch controllers will ship on December 6 for $200 and will include a sensor for detecting your movements in virtual reality.

Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe said that the company had previously delayed the launch so that it could perfect the controllers, because “we were determined to get this right.”

The company announced the details on the Oculus Touch controller at the Oculus Connect developer event in San Jose, California, where thousands of developers are attending the three-day event.

When the Oculus Rift shipped in March, it worked with an Xbox One game controller. But the Touch allows for independent movement of your hands. You can grab things, hold two guns at once, and explore VR with your hands.

Oculus is also going to sell extra sensors for $79 to enable “room-scale VR,” much like the HTC Vive does.

The company is going to bundle two games — Insomniac’s The Unspoken, a spellcasting duel game, and VR Sports — in the Oculus Touch package.

And, in other news, Oculus is going to sell its own $49 earphones for the Oculus Rift for even greater immersion.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.