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> Tapping your own fingers to click. This was something I brought up to FB/Meta when I was working there, but they decided not to use it

that's a bit of a confusing thing to say because that is exactly how you "click" in Quest when using hand tracking. What's different is the eye tracking and I'm guessing how good the Apple headset is at recognising the tap. But tap is how it does it.

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When I originally brought it up, no one was interested in the idea. It looks like this was introduced about six months after I left (which is about 18 months after I first brought it up), so it looks like they changed their minds.

I wonder if the quality of hand tracking was too poor. I remember it was absolutely incredible how fast it improved. And now it's actually really usable - I see lots of comments about how much better Apple's is but I wonder if people actually used the latest version on the Quest Pro which has better cameras - it's pretty damn good now).

Thanks for sharing, it's always interesting to hear these kind of anecdotes!

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