Essentials

Get started with hands and eyes

Updated: Sep 18, 2026
There are a lot of resources available for hands and eyes development. This page gives an overview of where to start and how to find what you need. A full site map of all the hands resources is included at the end of this page.

Learn

Learn the fundamentals of designing for hands and eyes. For more Hands resources, see the site map below.

Hands

Eyes

Play

Play our samples and read about successful third-party hands titles.
Hands-based interactions examples
A collage of hands-based interaction examples in virtual and mixed reality experiences.

Build

Get started building hands and gaze interactions with these key technical resources. For more Hands resources, see the site map below.
Getting Started with Interaction SDK (Unity / Unreal) The Getting Started with Interaction SDK documentation page for Unity.
Interaction SDK Overview (Unity / Unreal) Interaction SDK examples for grabbing, poking, and ray casting.
Hand Tracking Overview (Unity / Unreal) Hand tracking features for Meta VR development.
Example Scenes (Unity / Unreal) An Interaction SDK scene demonstrating hand-based object interactions.
Getting Started with Gaze Interactions (Unity / Unreal) A Unity editor showing the EmptyUIBackplateWithCanvas prefab being dragged from the Project panel into the Hierarchy.

Site map to hands resources

Hand inputs

Interactions → Inputs → Hands

Core interactions

The following sections describe core XR interactions like ray casting, touch, and grab. These interactions can apply to multiple input types, including hands. Some, like microgestures, focus entirely on hands.
Interactions → Core Interactions

Meta VR Academy courses and videos

Interactive courses
Short videos

Technical documentation: Unity

Interaction SDK foundations
Hand interactions and visuals
Hand tracking
Samples, simulation, and optimization

Technical documentation: Unreal

Input and Interaction SDK foundations
Hand interactions
Hand tracking
Samples and simulation

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