Apple Vision Pro - No Hand Tracking

SpatialGooner

I use the Apple Vision Pro and the WebXR player to watch SLR videos. Earlier this year I noticed that my hands/arms were bleeding into the environment and that the SLR WebXR player wasn’t requesting Hand/Eye tracking anymore. I reached out to SLR and I was told that the response from the developers is that “the visibility of hands through the VR environment is intentional and functioning as designed”.

Having my hands bleeding into the VR environment is inconvenient to me personally because my hands will usually be blocking the action. It also takes away from the immersion to see my own arms/hands on top of the performers. I’ve tried tilting the entire scene to keep my hands out of the action and even putting a clothing on top of my hands to block them, but everything I’ve tried has made things very inconvenient and almost unusable, I know that us AVP users are a small group, but I’m wondering if other headset users have had hand-tracking removed as well or if it’s just us AVP users being left beside to limitations or something.

If not, the option to turn hand tracking on/off would be great.

AlexSLR

SpatialGooner Hey,
Thank you for your feedback!
We are sorry to hear that it has caused you some inconvenience.
We have forwarded your feedback to the team for discussion 🙌

SpatialGooner

AlexSLR Thank you!

mrdiscreet918

AlexSLR Same goes for me. At least give me the option to turn it off.

doublevr

Apple did really shitty job limiting devs a lot with what they can do for AVP.

harigeharry

doublevr Yeah it's mind boggling that we can't have PT on the AVP. I still love mine but honestly I turn a lot to the Quest3 simply because of PT. Maybe if a jailbreak gets released one day that we can get PT. But other than that I'm looking forward to the Samsung/Google headset, hopefully later this year.

mrdiscreet918

doublevr Hands didn’t use to bleed through the image though, so this particular situation seems like an SLR issue.

PumpedKix

You can do passthru with videos on SLR and AVP at least until Apple fixes the “hack.”

While watching a video with Passthru, turn your head/gaze as far left or right as you can, like you are looking off the screen. Then press and hold the crown and left button down at same time to bring up the Force Quit menu. You want to be sure you place the force quit box out of the way so it doesn’t obscure your view.

Now, turn on the passthru button on the SLR video control. Voila….unbelievably sharp passthru on the AVP at full resolution.

This is obviously not working as intended, but gives you ua good feel for what’s possible if Apple ever allows Dev control over the Passthru functionality.