The Oculus Touch controls let you navigate independently with each hand in VR.
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Our roundup of the newest Oculus Touch virtual reality games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 8 min

Oculus showed off its Oculus Touch controller and a bunch of games that will use the  independently movable controls for its virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift. And a bunch of the games that are on display at the company’s key developer event are impressive.

The Oculus Connect event in San Jose, Calif., is an important one for Oculus VR and its parent company Facebook, which bet $2 billion in its acquisition of Oculus in 2014. The point is to show the momentum behind the new medium of virtual reality, and to show how much progress VR is making in becoming a bigger part of the game and app industries.

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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.