As most of you know, I have a Vive. Which means I have motion controls. and Rift is getting motion controls soon (not before time!), so I felt it was appropriate to post this...
Motion controls add a huge amount to a game. But, and it's a big but, because we're now using our hands in games and not simply aiming with a joypad/mouse and keys, the question of which hand to use comes into play. All the games I've played so far default to the dominant hand being the right. Which is fair enough. The majority of people are right handed. However, most of these games offer no option to switch hands. Which, when you're a leftie like me, is a bit of a bummer.
I know it's early days for VR games, but the sooner games devs start catering for us southpaws, the better 🙂
Hu? I would think since the Oculus controllers were mirrored images of each other it would not be a problem to use whatever hand one would like to use.
Not necessarily... all depends on whether the software developer has allowed for any action in-game to be carried out by either hand, and you can't just swap the controllers over either!
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Not necessarily... all depends on whether the software developer has allowed for any action in-game to be carried out by either hand, and you can't just swap the controllers over either!
Sounds like character design problem. +1 as they should allow you to use either hand the same way or at least have the ability to switch either way.
A solution would be to have the Touch controllers represent hands, rather than tools. That way you could pick UP the appropriate tool with whatever hand you like. Rather than having a sword fixed to the right hand, just let the player pick up a sword "object" with their dominant hand.
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A solution would be to have the Touch controllers represent hands, rather than tools. That way you could pick UP the appropriate tool with whatever hand you like. Rather than having a sword fixed to the right hand, just let the player pick up a sword "object" with their dominant hand.
That is a little more complicated to implement if the game otherwise doesn't need the ability to pick up items. But yeah it's a good idea.
