Rec Room’s non-obligatory full physique avatars at the moment are obtainable to all gamers in beta, however they nonetheless do not assist physique monitoring.
Full physique avatars are an non-obligatory different to Rec Room’s present avatars, which solely characteristic a head, torso, and arms. The characteristic began rolling out in beta in March, however was restricted to degree 50 gamers at first.
Competitor VRChat has supported full physique avatars pushed by physique monitoring {hardware} for a few years now, whereas Meta’s Horizon Worlds added full our bodies final 12 months, although like Rec Room it additionally does not presently assist physique monitoring.
Rec Room says it is nonetheless engaged on assist for physique monitoring on SteamVR, equivalent to through strapping on 3 or extra Vive Trackers or utilizing Quest 3’s inside-out higher physique (IOBT) monitoring on PC through Digital Desktop. The corporate is not giving a particular timeline for this although, and hasn’t stated whether or not Quest 3’s IOBT can be supported on standalone.
For now, Rec Room full our bodies are pushed with inverse kinematics (IK), which means the system will try and estimate the doubtless positions of your limbs based mostly on the place of your head and arms.
Rec Room stresses that full physique avatars will stay absolutely non-obligatory, saying it is “dedicated” to maintaining the “floating bean” avatars round too.
