I velcro-taped my Quest controllers to an old driving wheel I had laying around as an experiment
I velcro-taped my right-controller to in such a way that I can hold the wheel and still access the trigger... I've set the right controller to motion controls. The left controller can just be held onto the wheel, so I can access the trigger to brake.... it doesn't need to be attached though, since it's not tracking motion.
Several considerations/issues:
- The motion controls only work while you're holding the grip button, and actually the controller re-calibrates it's orientation every time you release and engage the grip button. Since I can't hold the wheel, trigger, and grip button all at once, I've used some velcro-tape to hold down the grip button... but this has to be done AFTER you're in the race, and while the wheel is perfectly zeroed out... it's VERY fiddly to get it set up right, but once you're in the race it works reasonable well. After the race ends, the grip button is used to toggle menus, so the game totally freaks out until you remove the velcro tape to release the grip button.
- There's a setting that controls the linearity of the steering. I set that to zero and it works reasonably well.
- I can get the in-game wheel to mimic my real-life movements nearly 1:1... at slow speeds. The game seems to lower the steering intensity dramatically as you get to higher speeds though (I guess to help you avoid turning too hard at high speed?), so you have to remember to compensate for that... at high speeds, it takes much larger motions to move the wheel small amounts.
- Geez I'd love to be able to rig up some kind of foot pedals. Maybe there's a way to map the gas and brake to the trigger & grip buttons on the left controller? Then I could rig something up to try to push them with my feet.
Anyways, I'd love to see someone release an actual driving wheel made for this. Driving games on Quest would be sweet with proper driving controls.
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