That was my first thought- it's a shame all we have to interact with such a complex, richly rendered world is a couple of analog sticks and some buttons.
You're going to absolutely love what Oculus is working on.
What are they working on? New hardware?
Well, Microsoft tried the Kinect, but it wasn't popular.
Hand control doesn't make sense without being able to see it in your hand and conversely VR is pretty much a gimmick until they added high fidelity hand tracking (Talking Vive/Rift level).