Wristband and active tools

Tooltips are shown on the wristband to show what tool, object, or material is currently active on that hand. By default, Arkio starts with no tool selected on each hand. Your non-dominant hand will show the home icon to reset yourself to the front of your Arkio table and any device-specific features like passthrough and locking your position on Meta Quest headsets. Your secondary hand will also show the time and the main menu by rotating your wrist towards you.

The black plateau on your wristband shows what tool is currently active on your hand. This can be an icon for operations like edit and move but can also be a 3D object or paint material if those tools are selected.

If you are using a different VR headset the way how your wristband is positioned might differ a bit. The Meta Quest version of Arkio features hands as we also support hands model interactions. You can use hand tracking on devices like the Meta Quest. and you can interact with your wristband buttons by pressing them using your index finger on the other hand.

In Arkio you can use tools on both hands. You can select these tools using the main menu If you wish to not have any tool active on your hands you can wiggle your hand quickly from left to right to remove any tool selected from your hand.

Meeting settings

When in an Arkio meeting the wristband on your non-dominant hand shows additional quick access tools like the status of the meeting and allows you to gather or lock the scene in mixed reality. You can learn more about these features in the meeting host and meeting gathering pages

Tool settings

Some tools have settings that can be toggled per hand using the shortcuts on the side of the wristband. This toggle can be activated using a laser click or by touching the button using your index finger or interaction point in front of your other controller.

The current tools that allow alternative settings are:

Create - for solid/hollow shapes it defaults to creating a full volume but can be toggled to a volume that is automatically split into Stacked floor heights.

Edit - While editing edges it defaults to orthogonal edits and can be switched to free-form editing

Paint - defaults to Painting an entire volume but it could be toggled to painting individual faces 

Delete  - defaults to Deleting the full solid/hollow shapes but it can be toggled to deleting hollow sub-elements (walls, ceiling)

Sketch - Default to creating a 2D line from the initial hit surface, you can change it to 3D spatial lines.