I was extremely impressed at how well this demo functioned on my Quest Pro. Obviously I haven’t used the Apple HMD, but I was able to easily eye-select nearly every UI element in the demo (resize boxes were a bit wonky) and could even do the whole “pinch with hand in lap” thing from the Apple reveal.
Surprisingly enough, I came away preferring where Meta is going with the whole “Direct Touch” thing (Quest users should have it under the Experimental tab in Settings). Lack of physical feedback (when using hand tracking only) is definitely an issue, but treating the virtual displays like physical touchscreens actually isn’t too bad. It’s definitely my preferred control scheme when I’m not using the controllers.
I can even sorta type at a reasonable enough speed for emails/instant messaging - though nowhere near good enough for coding. Essentially you input text like a Boomer on an iPad (ie: slow one finger pecking) but at twice the speed because you can use two hands.
Surprisingly enough, I came away preferring where Meta is going with the whole “Direct Touch” thing (Quest users should have it under the Experimental tab in Settings). Lack of physical feedback (when using hand tracking only) is definitely an issue, but treating the virtual displays like physical touchscreens actually isn’t too bad. It’s definitely my preferred control scheme when I’m not using the controllers.
I can even sorta type at a reasonable enough speed for emails/instant messaging - though nowhere near good enough for coding. Essentially you input text like a Boomer on an iPad (ie: slow one finger pecking) but at twice the speed because you can use two hands.