Tutorial - Hand tracking

If you are using the Meta Quest 2 or 3, you can try Arkio's experimental hand modeling to work with most of Arkio's tools. You can activate this by enabling hand-tracking in your device's settings.

With hand tracking enabled, you can put down a controller on a fixed surface and look at your hands. You can switch back to the controllers in Arkio anytime by picking them up again and pressing the menu buttons.

Navigation

You can grab and scale the world by forming one or two fists just like using the grip buttons on the side of your controller.

Activate the laser and tools

An open hand, palm forward, gesture with your fingers spread (like a stop sign) will show the laser for your active tool on that hand. By using a pinch gesture (thumb and index finger touching), the active tool gets started and this allows you to pick up and edit geometry just like using the trigger on your normal controllers.

Show main menu

A pinch gesture with your thumb and middle finger will open the Quick selection menu, automatically switching the tools on hover. Releasing the pinch will select the latest hovered tool on that hand. You can also select tools by touching the buttons with your index finger.

Teleport

You can teleport by rotating your right wrist up and making a pointing gesture. As long as the teleport mode is activated, you can teleport to the model and back to the sky by pinching your index finger and thumb.

Known issues

• Meta is actively improving the hand tracking with each system update. Overlapping hands and bad lighting conditions can interfere with the quality of your tracking
• Pinch or grip gestures are not always detected
• The hands sometimes lose tracking, making the tools and operations in Arkio not work as expected
• You can disable hand tracking on your headset if you don’t want Arkio to switch to hands when you put your controllers down