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Quest 2/Quest 3 hand tracking for Steam VR BETA

By Barcode

How to activate hand tracking for quest 2/quest 3 headsets using steam link (no third party software)

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Category: Modding or Configuration, Walkthroughs

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12 Sep, 2024 @ 10:12pm

12 Sep, 2024 @ 10:16pm

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Guide Index

Overview

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Enable hand tracking on your Quest 2/Quest 3 Headset

Enabling the SteamVR BETA

Enabling the Steam Link BETA

Getting Handsy

Hand Tracking supported games

More Info

Comments

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This guide will be obsolete eventually since steam will eventually update SteamVR and Steam link, meaning everyone with quest headsets will eventually will have access to this new feature

Doesn't require Third Party software

Enable hand tracking on your Quest 2/Quest 3 Headset

Press the home icon on your right Touch controller to pull up your universal menu.
Select Settings
Select Movement Settings
If presented, select Hand tracking
Next to Hand and body tracking, switch the toggle to on or off to enable hand tracking.

Enabling the SteamVR BETA

With Steam running, navigate to your library.
Right click on "SteamVR" in your library list, then click "Properties" in the context menu.
Select the "Betas" tab on the left.
Select "Beta - SteamVR Beta Update" from the drop down list

Enabling the Steam Link BETA

Switch over to your mobile device for this part

Open the Meta App on your phone
Find the Steam Link App on your profile or the Meta store and go the app page
Scroll down to "More Information" and click on the drop down arrow beside the wording
Tap on the Version number, Tap channel on the top right
When prompted, select PublicBeta: 2.0.11

Getting Handsy

Once the Steam Link and SteamVR app update to it's beta, open Steam Link using hand tracking, and connect to your PC

You should load in, with strange small crystals being in place of your hands.

To select, Point and pinch, To open and close the SteamVR menu, make your left palm face you and pinch your index and thumb

Hand Tracking supported games

Any game that has Valve Index support should work, some games of note being:

Half-Life: ALYX (store page redirect)

BONEWORKS

Blade & Sorcery

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

And more not listed.

Some controls might not be available on these games, such as movement or button controls, test accordingly

More Info

Discovered via a youtube recommendation, so i decided to make a steam guide out of it after i tried it myself, works pretty well

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Barcode [author] 20 Nov @ 9:36pm

if you're using the steam link app found in the quest store (wireless) the hand tracking should, as long as it is enabled on your headset.

If you're using the oculus app on your pc (wired or wireless), im not sure it will work. i uninstalled the app a while ago and i dont really want to reinstall it just to find out, sorry.

also gotta let you know that this might be outdated since i haven't tried hand tracking in a while, not sure if steam scrapped the feature, or if the feature is in an official update. Before opting into the SteamVR beta, try doing it on the version you already have.
Betas may have bugs/performance issues.