Oculus VR explains why Touch controllers aren’t shipping with the Rift in 2016

The Oculus Touch motion controllers feel fantastic. They (and other wireless input devices made for virtual reality) will be a crucial part of VR games going forward. That’s why it’s a bit weird that Touch isn’t launching alongside the Oculus Rift VR headset next year.

Buried within Oculus VR’s numerous announcements at last week’s Oculus Connect conference was the news that Oculus Touch is coming out in the second quarter of 2016, a few months after the Rift (releasing in Q1 2016). Instead, it’ll come with an Xbox One controller as part of Oculus’s extensive partnership with Microsoft.