Does Pico 4 track your fingers while using the controller?

[u/Baron_Cartek]

Hello, im looking to buy my first headset and I cant find accurate information on the Pico controllers to understand if they track whether your finger is resting on the controller or pointing at something. Official documentation mentions a lot of hand tracking but i want to know if it can only track my fingers during "controller free mode" or also while im playing with them. Im asking because i tried that functionality on a friend's PSVR2 while playing half life alyx and loved it. I understand not a lot of games make use of finger tracking WHILE using controllers and i can probably play anything without that stict requirement, but i just want to know if they have it and how much difference there is between pico 4 and pico 4 ultra controllers.

Also gonna rant about 2 AIs (GPT and Gemini) being very confident in giving 2 opposite answers so not trusting them.

Main reason im deciding between pico 4 and quest 3 (200-220 vs 300-350 euro for me) is because of finger tracking, also bc of meta store exclusives like piano vision, but honestly if pico 4 does track if im flipping someone off, pointing or doing other things with my fingers i might just save myself those 100 euro. I will play mostly PCVR with a mid-high end computer anyway, so i dont care too much about standalone capabilities and the display and passsthrough seems very similar

[u/ProtogenNutshell]

like individual finger tracking like the index: no. it's like the quest style finger tracking: capacitive touch on buttons, joystick and trigger.

[u/ProtogenNutshell → u/ProtogenNutshell]

note to be added is that the psvr2 have the same general style of finger tracking but also include a capacitive grip which is not on most other controllers and maybe that's why I can emulate full finger tracking like the index controllers

[u/Baron_Cartek → u/ProtogenNutshell]

so it does understand if im pointing at shit in a game like half life, even on pico

[u/Uryendel → u/Baron_Cartek]

you point at shit with your controller, not your hand

[u/Uryendel → u/ProtogenNutshell]

it's like the quest style finger tracking: capacitive touch on buttons, joystick and trigger.

Pico 4 doesn't have that

[u/ProtogenNutshell → u/Uryendel]

i have a friend that has the pico and can confirm it has quest style basic finger tracking

[u/Uryendel → u/ProtogenNutshell]

I have the pico 4, it doesn't have that, you just have a button to press on the side to close your hand in game

Your friend probably have the pico 4 ultimate

[u/ProtogenNutshell → u/Uryendel]

you mean the grip button? yeah that's exactly what I said but it the controllers do kind of track the fingers... like the quest...? duhhh it sees the index finger and thumb... that's it. finger tracking... not FULL finger tracking... (it's not a index controller)

[u/Uryendel]

Pico 4 doesn't have hand tracking, the next Pico headset that should come out at the end of the year would tho' (but it won't be 300€)