Indie studio X82 introduced it’s releasing a parkour recreation subsequent month that’s throwing in a veritable buffet of distinctive locomotion types, hoping to place Quest’s hand-tracking on par with controller-based motion.
Referred to as FastHands, the multiplayer recreation gives up limitless procedurally ranges that allow you to run, leap, climb and glide, tasking you to progress via impediment programs full of transferring traps, velocity boosts, and its justifiable share of inconceivable jumps.
When you can play seated and with controllers, the sport’s use of hand-tracking goals to go loads additional than most, getting out of your chair to pump your arms for ahead motion, glide via the air like Superman, and skitter up partitions utilizing your stick ‘spider palms’ to blast up verticals at a surprisingly quick tempo.
Try the trailer beneath 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, nevertheless it’s supposed to provide a greater really feel of working 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 basically a parkour recreation, there’s additionally some taking pictures concerned too, serving up targets (and different gamers) that you could hit together with your trusty slingshot. Pull one hand again to cost and goal with the opposite—with or with out controllers.
It’s an fascinating array of hand-tracked stuff for certain, and we will’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 Might eighth.
Within the meantime, X82 is internet hosting closed multiplayer beta testing on the FastHands Discord (invite hyperlink). Be a part of for extra particulars on find out how to entry the sport and in addition present suggestions.
