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The lack of controllers makes everything feel a little bit more real, just like you’re standing on a plank suspended off the side of a skyscraper. While the support is only for the main plank sections of the game for now, it’s still a fantastic and terrifying experience.

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However, with the latest update for the Quest version of the game, the immersion just got upped even more with the addition of hand tracking support. ElixirĮven before hand tracking support, Richie’s Plank Experience was known for producing some of the most immersive moments in VR - you’ve all seen that video of the guy jumping into the TV. You can read more about the feature and how it works here. If you’ve sideloaded the alternate SideQuest version of the app, the feature even extends (in an experimental capacity) to control of PC-based VR games, where your hands act as emulated Touch controllers.

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When using hand tracking, Virtual Desktop allows you to log into your PC on your Quest from anywhere with just your hands, no controllers needed. It does support hand tracking, but it’s a little buggy. It’s a little scrappy, but this experimental FPS uses roomscale navigation and design in an innovative way to keep you fully immersed. This alternate version of the introductory Quest experience is available through App Lab, and provides this same experience but altered to solely use hand tracking instead of controllers. Here’s our list of the best hand tracking experience available on Quest 2.

While it started out slow, more and more games are supporting hand tracking on Quest - with some using it as an exclusive input method.

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Even better, the recent Hand Tracking 2.0 software update has resulted in huge performance and reliability improvements in select games. This allows you to use your hands for navigation in the Quest UI, as well as an input method for games and apps that implement support. However, Quest headsets now support controller-free hand tracking. When the original Quest launched, the only input option was the included Touch controllers.

With more and more experiences implementing support, we’ve narrowed down the best Quest 2 hand-tracking games so far. Instead, we prefer to make exactly the PCVR game we want to, and then optimize things for Nomad and/or omit anything that is not yet possible for the Quest 2 tech-wise.One of the biggest post-launch features added to the Quest has been controller-free hand tracking. If they were the same title, then the PCVR version would be limited in scope by the Quest 2 capabilities, and we didn’t want that. Similarly, we wanted to distinguish they are separate titles so that we can reserve the right to steam ahead with PCVR development without restriction.

“The reason for splitting the titles like this, rather than just making it all the same game, is we did not want to reduce the PCVR game’s quality in order to force Blade & Sorcery to work on the Quest 2. But because Nomad is optimized for the Quest 2, some things are different from the PCVR game, for example, graphics.” Blade and Sorcery Nomad VR fighting game This means a person without a powerful PC can play a version of Blade & Sorcery that is optimized directly for their headset, to ensure they have a nice time with performance and so forth. “It is very important that we get this message across: Blade & Sorcery: Nomad is a separate standalone title from the PCVR version.

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