How to activate hand tracking PICO 4 VR Headset

How to activate hand tracking PICO 4 VR Headset

Not many people know that the Pico 4 has hand-tracking support, but you can try it out right now without downloading anything additional.

This one's not quite ready for the primetime, it's a little buggy and could use some refinement, so it's currently hidden in a developer menu. To activate it, you'll first need to enable developer mode.

Go to Settings, General, then About and scroll down to Software Version. You'll need to click Software Version seven times in quick succession to become a developer (the same method is used to activate developer mode on an Android phone, FYI.)

Then, you'll see a new option in the Settings menu called Developer. Here, you can select Hand Tracking and enable it. On-screen animations will show you the basic gestures for clicking, grabbing, going home and recentering.

To try it out, just place the controllers out of view, or turn them off, and hold up your hands in front of you. The Pico should then start tracking your hand movement and you can try navigating the menus without a controller.

Support is very limited at the moment, there are no games that take advantage of this feature, but it could be handy if you're just wanting to watch a video in VR and don't want to deal with the controllers.

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