Nintendo Joy Con Usage vs. Gestures

[minusreality]

Hello,

There are some community claims that a specific version of ALVR can support joy cons. Is this the case? I don't yet own Joy Cons so I'm testing things with my XBox controller for now.

When I enable gestures and launch VRChat, I cannot use my current xbox controller's thumbsticks reliably. I'm assuming because figner tracking thinks I'm doing one thing and the xbox joystick think another so they're conflicting.

When I disable gestures and launch vrchat, nothing about my controller acts as a pinch gesture or VR controller trigger click and therefore I cannot click/select anything in either SteamVR or VRChat.

What are my options here?

[shinyquagsire23]

yes, visionOS ALVR has support for Joy-Con connected to the headset, but you must turn off gestures for it to work. You can also use a DS4 or Pro Controller technically, but the bindings might be funky. Luckily the settings app allows rebinding per-app for now.

[minusreality]

It seems the support is specifically for Joy Con and not other controllers? My XBox controller has no button that will operate as a VR trigger.

[shinyquagsire23]

the controllers have to be connected to the headset, not the PC, so we're at the mercy of whatever Apple happens to support for now, unfortunately.

[minusreality]

The XBox controller is connected directly to the headset. I will purchase a Joy Con to test if it is somehow working diferrently than my current XBox controller.

[shinyquagsire23]

oh if it's actually connected and shows the rebinding stuff in settings, you should be able to use it in ALVR fine. Just change your streamer settings from Controllers -> Gestures -> Only touch to Off so that it uses the controller inputs