Whereas the Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro digital actuality headsets already provide hand monitoring that doesn’t require direct conroller enter, it isn’t all the time very exact.
The most recent replace to the Quest’s working system, v50, adjustments this by including ‘Direct Contact,’ a function that permits customers to achieve out and level to work together with a button. Beforehand, you wanted to level at an object after which awkwardly pinch your fingers to pick it, so this new type of interplay removes the extra, barely awkward gesture from the equation to make issues really feel extra pure.
Meta says Direct Contact works on digital keyboards, permitting customers to faucet the headset’s floating keyboard instantly with out transferring a cursor round with its controllers. Controls have all the time been a difficulty for VR headset producers, and whereas bodily controllers get the job performed, their movement controls aren’t all the time very intuitive.
Although it’s nonetheless within the early levels, Meta appears to view gestures like Direct Contact as the way forward for interacting with its headsets’ digital worlds.
The v50 replace additionally provides app multi-tasking inside video games and apps to the Quest 2, a function already supplied by the Quest Professional. Meta says that the replace is progressively rolling out “over the subsequent few weeks.”
Meta is predicted to disclose its rumoured Quest 3 digital actuality headset later this 12 months.
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