VR Here Talks – Valve Knuckles

It means once games implement the new sensors that we can look forward top even better immersive hand gestures. Take a look at what the games are doing with a game called Boneworks and it soon becomes apparent that this new controller will add so much to VR. Within the demo called Moondust we got to actually pick things up, sure we have been able to do this for a while now but using the new controllers feels more natural. Holding our palms open we reach to pick up a stress ball looking object, wrapping our hands around it and closing our fingers we are able to pick it up and then actually squeeze it to make the object squish out of its shell. It’s definitely a wow moment, we can even move our fingers off the buttons to do a thumbs up. In another part of the demo we drove a remote control car around using the built in joysticks and new shaped trigger button to race the buggy around the moon. The best part of this mini experience is that you have to hold the remote control like you would in real life to control the car, within the Moondust demo you get a few different mini games to explore but we think the grenade test is the best. In this you can adjust the gravity level, grenades float away into space but can still explode after a short time. Grabbing is just as pleasing in this section, squeezing the grenade hard will activate it so it’s time to throw it away, as mentioned there is a stress toy looking object in this mini game and it’s super satisfying to grab this and make it squish out of its shell.