C Specification

The XrHandTrackingFrequencyHintMETA enumerates the frequency hints that applications can provide to suggest the desired hand tracking update frequency to the runtime.

// Provided by XR_META_hand_tracking_frequency_hint
typedef enum XrHandTrackingFrequencyHintMETA {
    XR_HAND_TRACKING_FREQUENCY_HINT_DEFAULT_META = 1,
    XR_HAND_TRACKING_FREQUENCY_HINT_HIGH_META = 2,
    XR_HAND_TRACKING_FREQUENCY_HINT_MAX_ENUM_META = 0x7FFFFFFF
} XrHandTrackingFrequencyHintMETA;

Description

Enumerant Descriptions

  • XR_HAND_TRACKING_FREQUENCY_HINT_DEFAULT_META - This value indicates that the application suggests the runtime use the default hand tracking frequency. This is typically the most power-efficient frequency that provides adequate tracking quality for general use cases.

  • XR_HAND_TRACKING_FREQUENCY_HINT_HIGH_META - This value indicates that the application suggests the runtime use a higher hand tracking frequency when possible. This may provide more responsive tracking for performance-critical applications, but at higher framerates, the effectiveness of temporal smoothing algorithms is reduced, which can result in increased jitter and less visually smooth hand tracking.

See Also

XR_META_hand_tracking_frequency_hint, xrSetHandTrackingFrequencyHintMETA

Document Notes

For more information, see the OpenXR Specification

This page is extracted from the OpenXR Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

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