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by cwxm 2293 days ago
Looks really great! This is the best implementation of this I've seen so far.

It does feel like it'd be great to combine VR headsets with hand gestures (gloves or rings maybe?). In the video for example, your slack window is far away. My immediate instinct was to grab that slack window closer to me.

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Thanks! The way I think about hand tracking is that it has its applications, but has to be used very thoughtfully. The mouse is approachable and gives me access to my entire field of view just by moving my wrist a bit. Hand tracking can feel amazingly natural, but lifting my hand/arm and possibly reaching out is a lot more work which people won't realistically want to do too much over the course of a day. If moving windows closer/further is a big use-case (which it isn't in my concept), I'd rather find an easy way to to that with the mouse than forcing people to reach out.
I think that's very fair. It would be a tiring movement to do time after time during the day vs the small movements that you have to do with a moouse.