Indie studio X82 introduced it’s releasing a parkour sport subsequent month that’s throwing in a veritable buffet of distinctive locomotion kinds, hoping to place Quest’s hand-tracking on par with controller-based motion.
Known as FastHands, the multiplayer sport presents up infinite procedurally ranges that allow you to run, leap, climb and glide, tasking you to progress by way of impediment programs crammed with shifting traps, velocity boosts, and its fair proportion of unattainable jumps.
When you can play seated and with controllers, the sport’s use of hand-tracking goals to go quite a bit additional than most, getting out of your chair to pump your arms for ahead motion, glide by way of the air like Superman, and skitter up partitions utilizing your stick ‘spider fingers’ to blast up verticals at a surprisingly quick tempo.
Try the trailer under to see simply how hand-tracking is utilized in FastHands:
You gained’t must swing your arms ‘an excessive amount of’, like in Dash Vector (2018) although, as an alternative requiring about 20cm (eight inches) of up and down motion to speed up.
“It’s not too excessive effort as you solely want a medium tempo, however it’s meant to present a greater really feel of operating whereas additionally making use of hand monitoring,” X82 tells Highway to VR. “There may be additionally a seated / controller mode the place you simply use analogue sticks.”
Though essentially a parkour sport, there’s additionally some taking pictures concerned too, serving up targets (and different gamers) which you could hit along with your trusty slingshot. Pull one hand again to cost and purpose with the opposite—with or with out controllers.
It’s an fascinating array of hand-tracked stuff for positive, and we are able to’t wait to see it in motion when it arrives in early entry on Quest 2 and above. You’ll discover it over on the Horizon Retailer when it launches on Could eighth.
Within the meantime, X82 is internet hosting closed multiplayer beta testing on the FastHands Discord (invite hyperlink). Be part of for extra particulars on entry the sport and in addition present suggestions.
