The future of gaming is closer than you think. Or at least, the future of gaming as envisioned by Oculus VR.

The company’s Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that lets users play epic games with an immersive 360-degree field of vision, will ship by March of next year, and will include an Xbox One game controller. Oculus is also developing two ring-shaped controllers that will let players interact with objects in games like they might in real life.

Each hand-tracking controller, which Oculus calls Half Moon, will include buttons and triggers to let players, say, pick up a gun inside a first-person shooter game and use their fingers to fire it. Allowing people to interact with content inside virtual reality applications beyond just looking at it is a big challenge in VR development.

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