Hand Tracking is finally available for PatchWorld: Explore, rewire, tweak, and play music like never before

Mathieu G.

Put your controllers down. Now, you have the freedom to explore everything in PatchWorld’s creative music and media playground on Meta Quest using just your hands and familiar gestures. It’s all in the latest PatchWorld update, alongside a slew of major community and navigation updates.

Users can save more than 50% off PatchWorld on the Meta Quest Store through January 6.

PatchWorld is a playful, unlimited virtual music studio in VR and mixed reality, letting you build, jam, collaborate, and explore musical worlds. And now Hand Tracking opens up seamless, natural interaction with instruments, patching and building, and collaboration and live jams.

Everything in PatchWorld is now enabled for Hand Tracking, from exploring our ready-to-play worlds and community contributions to building your own instruments and immersive realms. Just a few examples of what you can do using gestures you already know:

Touch, hit, and tap items in the world using your index finger or open hand.
Make a fist to grab items or move around by “swimming.”
Pinch your fingers together to grab objects,
Tweak and trigger buttons, faders, and knobs using finger gestures.
Connect wires with virtual patch cords using your index finger and thumb.

PatchWorld has been at the forefront of the Meta Oculus Rift’s capabilities, and this update continues that commitment to maximizing immersion and natural, playful interactions.

Also in the latest update, there’s an improved, refreshed interface, expanded World Portal features for jumping between Worlds, and easier navigation and movement. Building on PatchWorld’s unparalleled community and sharing tools, users can now curate their own collaborative playlists of Worlds, find other players and multiplayer Worlds more easily, and Like and share worlds. An improved suggestion algorithm helps recommend new Worlds to discover.

There’s also a new 3D grid to help align objects when world-building, and you can add gravity and other physics behaviors using the new Make Physical Block. It’s all about making PatchWorld easier to explore and closer to a real-world experience.

The latest free PatchWorld update builds on a rapid upgrade cadence. Recent updates have added support for ReadyPlayerMe avatars, integration with popular music production tool Ableton Live, a Community Hub with weekly features and events, and expanded Multiplayer Sync for jamming with others. Take advantage of new OpenSoundControl (OSC) support for connecting to other apps.

PatchWorld with Hand Tracking is available now as a free update for existing users on the Meta Quest Store. Users can sign up to Discord for tips, community, and exclusive access to the PatchMaker beta for advanced access to powerful creation tools. Through January 6, 2025, PatchWorld is on sale for $13.99 (reg.: $29.99) – a savings of over 50%.

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