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The whole point of the eye/finger mechanism is so that you can just pickup the headset at any time, watch a movie or play a game without needing to worry about finding and charging controllers.

For doing proper work the keyboard/trackpad combination looks to be ideal.

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For navigating menus, even the original Quest's hand tracking, where you used your fingers to point at things, is good enough.

The Quest 2's hand tracking is so bad as to be literally unusable for me.

I just cannot get it to reliably recognize pinching. It's like only half the time, and sometimes I have to pinch like ten times in a row until success. Or the act of pinching also moves the hand off the item you're trying to click.

And then certain things your on-screen hands just can't reach. Super unclear why. But I think something to do with trying to map hands close to you, to an interface button visually one or two meters away.

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