A now-deleted screenshot on the Quest 2 developer weblog (thanks UploadVR) means that help for physique monitoring might be on the best way. Given Meta’s plans for the, um, Metaverse, increasing help for the Quest 2’s function set to incorporate physique monitoring can be a pleasant addition for gaming and no matter different hijinx your avatar will get as much as within the virtual world.
Below the ‘Quest Options’ of the configuration menus, builders are given choices to allow totally different options for the VR headset. As you may see within the screenshot beneath, proper above tracked keyboard help there is a drop-down for disabling and enabling physique monitoring help, a function that has by no means been talked about for the Quest 2 headset earlier than.
At present, the one components of your physique the Quest 2 can observe are your head, fingers, and fingers (which had been added through software program replace again in 2019).
Given the present {hardware}, we’d solely be speaking about your torso, though we should not rule out the opportunity of Meta releasing extra {hardware} like HTC Vive Pro 2-esque room trackers. Solely time will inform.
Apparently sufficient, the Oculus dev web page appears to have up to date the screenshots of the interface, this time with any point out of physique monitoring fully erased. We have reached out to Meta for remark and its response was that the corporate does not have something to share on this subject. Under you may see the earlier than and after.
