The hand tracking software control feature in Oculus Quest is no longer just an experiment. This week, Facebook will take it out of beta status, and next week three games adapted to it will be introduced on the App Store. This means that third-party handheld apps will be open for download.
BP developers of Facebook have integrated hand and finger tracking into some of their own applications like Oculus Browser and Oculus TV, but third-party applications are not allowed in the Oculus Store. With the lifting of this ban, the prepared games “Elixir”, “The Curious Story of Stolen Pets” and “Waltz of the Magician” will now be released. They can be considered as demonstrations of possibilities.
There will also be several relevant interactive films, such as “Gloomy Eyes” about the love between a zombie guy and a living girl and “The Line” about a world of endless routine.
Most likely nothing will change in the way the function works with the release: If you download glasses without taking controllers with you, you will be able to control the interface manually, but you will be offered controllers when you start an application with their support (i.e. almost any application).
As for hand tracking in Rift, Oculus hasn’t reported anything new since it announced a few months ago that it would have to wait for feedback from quest owners. And there will be more, especially with Oculus Link over almost every cable on the market.
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