immersive-web / webxr-hand-input

A feature repo for working on hand input support in WebXR. Feature lead: Manish Goregaokar
https://immersive-web.github.io/webxr-hand-input/
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Clarification needed about third person hand tracking #59

Open fordacious opened 3 years ago

fordacious commented 3 years ago

There is a baked in assumption that there is a single "user" and that this user is the one that has their hands tracked. What about the use cases of third person hand tracking?

"Is there a way of knowing which hand(s) belong to the user, vs. hands detected by near-standing neighbors, or hands detected at a distance attached to other people in the viewport? (I assume there are heuristics that try to limit the hand-tracking only to the user's hands.)"

Manishearth commented 3 years ago

A device is free to report whatever hands it sees as additional input sources, though I'd expect input source 0 and 1 to be the users' hands and further hands to slot in after that.