Chapter 8

Hands and arms

Tracked gloved hands and arms that grip the wheel, and how to fit them to your body.

With hand tracking on, the add-on draws gloved hands and sleeves that copy yours. Near the wheel they snap onto the rim and hold it.

Screenshot to come

FIG 8.1capture in the headset

What you need

A headset with hand tracking, like the Quest 3, with hand tracking turned on.
Virtual Desktop, which passes hand tracking to the sim. Tested with a Meta Quest 3.
Settings › Arms › Show hands and arms on.

Put the controllers down. Hands show when the headset sees your hands.

Settings › Arms › BODY:

Note

Elbows and shoulders are estimated. The headset tracks only the hands, so the arms look right but are not exact.

Your real wheel and the model are rarely in exactly the same place. A hand near the rim is pulled onto it.

Row	What it does
`Snap hands onto the rim`	Turns the pull on.
`Snap range`	How close a hand must be to snap, default `0.15 m`.
`Grip alignment`	How much the hand turns into a grip.
`Grip depth`	How far the fingers wrap over the rim.
`Elbow flare`	How far the elbows point out.
`Hold the wheel when tracking drops`	When the headset loses a hand, it goes to the rim at 9 or 3 o'clock and turns with the wheel until tracking returns.

Tip

The rim hides your hands from the cameras a lot. Keep Hold the wheel when tracking drops on.

Row	What it does
`Show sleeves`	Shows the suit sleeves on the arms.
`Model`	`hands_gloves.glb` by default. `CHANGE` loads another hand model.
`Colours`	Glove and sleeve colour. Only for models without textures.

With Hand tracking controls on (Settings › Controls), your hands also drive the VR menu. See chapter 10.