The long-awaited Oculus Touch controller will ship Dec. 6 with a $199 price tag, the Facebook-owned virtual-reality company announced at Oculus Connect 3 Thursday at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif.
Pre-orders for the Oculus Touch begin Oct. 10, and the controller will be shipped with VR Sports Challenge and The Unspoken, as well as an addition sensor and a Rock Band VR connector.
Oculus VR said in a blog post that people who pre-ordered and received their Oculus Rift units via its website already have their spots reserved in the Oculus Touch pre-order queue, and they must order by 11:59 p.m. PT Oct. 27 to retain their priority status.

The Oculus team also demonstrated Santa Cruz, which it described as ?a feature prototype demonstrating inside-out tracking that opens up the path to standalone as an entirely new VR category.?
Oculus also announced that users can launch Facebook Live livestreams from any Gear VR application via the universal menu.
And the company introduced the Oculus Avatars platform, which offers ?more than 1 billion permutations? for users to customize their avatars, as well as Oculus Parties, the ability to start voice calls with up to eight people, and Oculus Rooms, where users can virtually meet up with their friends to simultaneously watch movies, play games or use other apps.
Oculus Parties and Oculus Rooms will ship for Gear VR ?in the coming weeks,? with an early 2017 date pegged for Oculus Rift.

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