Hands tracking with no gloves - Quest 3

[MartinVoy]

Hi. Is there an option of tracking hands and playing without controllers, but without buying gloves, just using Quest 3 hands tracking? Cheers!

[Donoghu]

Quest 2 & Quest 3 hands tracking is limited in terms of compatibility when using the Oculus Link (cable) or Air Link mode. VR games has to purposely implement hand tracking within the Meta API of their game for it to work through the previously link modes mentioned.

When using Virtual Desktop, it's possible to play the game with hand tracking, but the tracking is limited to hands position and fingers movements are used for both inputs and triggers. It's not exactly great considering many "input" (buttons) equivalent are kinda unusual.

The reason why Virtual Desktop (kinda) works is because it's actually using the native internal hardware of the headset for hand tracking while, on the other hand (pun intended), the Oculus App (required to run the Oculus Link and Air mode) takes over the headset's OS in a sort of sandbox mode once linked.