Rock Band VR is coming to the Oculus Touch and Oculus Rift.
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Rock Band VR takes music games in a new direction

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I have no musical talent, and I’m even bad at playing faux guitars. So, I was a very bad guinea pig to try out Rock Band VR, the latest version of the guitar-strumming game coming from Harmonix Music Systems for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.

I played the title at the Oculus Connect event last week, which featured a bunch of new VR games. This version of Rock Band takes advantage of the Oculus Touch, the new controllers that you can hold in each hand to navigate independently in VR. You simply hang one of the touch controllers at the end of the faux guitar, and then you strap on the Oculus Rift to your head. That transports you into the colorful world of Rock Band VR.

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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.