[Sohcahtoa82]

I'm a little confused by your post.

> I remember trying a vive game that had arms but sometimes they would contort into impossible poses and it was extremely jarring [.....] the visible hands on the touch controllers on rift is just fantastic.

Neither of the things mentioned here are specific to Vive or Rift.

A Rift game can give you arms that contort into impossible poses, just like a Vive game can give you visible hands. It's just software and whatever the author of whatever game you're playing decided to do.

Did you play a game worked in both Vive and Rift, and the versions were different or something?

[hexane360]

You're correct about the arms, but I believe the Rift has additional sensors on its touch controllers [1], allowing it to record your thumb position and update the hand model accordingly.

1: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Oculus-R...

[baby]

If you try both the vive and the rift you'll see that the default for the rift is fake hands that mimic yours. It's cool but I personnally couldnt get fooled. I prefer the vive controllers.