Controls

How to grab, move and scale structures, open the Main Panel, point, select and mute in Nanome XR, on each headset.

Grab, move and scaleThe same on every headset.Quest controllersEvery button, hand by hand.Left-handed modeSwaps which hand does what.Hand trackingPinch and touch, on Quest and Galaxy XR.Apple Vision ProLook and pinch.

Grab, move and scale

A grab is the grip button on a controller, or a pinch with hand tracking and on Vision Pro.

• GrabMoves and turns the whole workspace with your hand: all the structures together.
• Grab with both handsHands apart makes the structures bigger, hands together smaller, from 0.1 to 10 times Nanome's default size.
• Turn both handsWhile grabbing with both hands, turning the hands around each other rotates the workspace. Off when Allow two-handed grab rotation is off in Settings.
• Position MoleculesAt the bottom of the Components tab. While it's on, grabbing a structure moves only that one. Scaling still sizes them all. Editors only.
• Grab the Main PanelMoves the panel, unless Lock menu position is on.

The thumbsticks don't walk or turn you. Grabbing the workspace and pulling it toward you brings a structure closer.

Meta Quest controllers

The right hand is the dominant hand to start: it holds the current tool. The left is the off hand, with the menu shortcuts and the Wrist Menu. Left-handed mode swaps them.

Either controller

• Trigger, on a panelPresses the button the pointer is on.
• GripGrabs.
• Thumbstick, on a panelScrolls the panel.
• Thumbstick pressWhile held, outlines that hand's pointer in your color. Others in the workspace see the outline too, which makes it a way to point something out.

Right hand (dominant)

• TriggerAway from panels, uses the current tool. With the Pointer, selects or deselects the residue under the pointer.
• Trigger, aimed at the skyClears the selection, in any tool. The pointer has to aim within 30° of straight up, with nothing under it.
• Thumbstick left or rightAway from panels, switches the current tool's mode, for example between Distance, Angle and Dihedral. In the Residue Editor, steps through rotamers.
• A and BNot used.

The current tool's icon shows on this controller. For a tool with several modes, the mode shows beside it, between arrows that light up as the thumbstick switches it.

Left hand (off hand)

• Menu buttonShows or hides the Main Panel, in front of you. Same as the big Wrist Menu button.
• XMutes or unmutes your mic. Same as the Wrist Menu's mic button, and does nothing while that button is grayed out.
• YOpens MARA, already listening. Pressing it again while MARA listens closes MARA and drops the recording. Needs a loaded workspace and Editor access.
• TriggerAlways the Pointer: selects or deselects the residue under this hand's pointer, whatever tool the right hand holds.

Left-handed mode

Left-handed mode, in the Settings tab, makes the left hand dominant. The tool and its display move to the left controller, and the Wrist Menu to the right wrist.

	Right-handed (to start)	Left-handed
Current tool	Right trigger and thumbstick	Left trigger and thumbstick
Off-hand Pointer	Left trigger	Right trigger
Main Panel	Menu button or Wrist Menu	Wrist Menu
Mute	X	A
MARA	Y	B
Wrist Menu	Left wrist	Right wrist

No Menu button on the right

The Menu shortcut follows the off hand. In left-handed mode that's the right controller, which has no Menu button: its button in that spot is the Meta button. So in left-handed mode the Main Panel opens from the Wrist Menu, on the right wrist.

Hand tracking

Nanome reads hands the same way on Quest and Galaxy XR.

• PinchThumb and index finger together. Grabs, like the grip. With the hand's ray on a panel, presses the button.
• Pinch with both handsScales and rotates, like grabbing with both controllers.
• PointIndex finger out, the other fingers curled. Hides the hand's ray. A fingertip also presses panel buttons by touching them.
• Wrist MenuOn the off-hand wrist. A touch from the other hand opens the Main Panel or MARA, or mutes your mic.

Tools follow the controller trigger

Selecting with the Pointer and the tools in the Tools Panel respond to the controller trigger, and the Menu, X and Y shortcuts to controller buttons.

Galaxy XR

Hand tracking on Galaxy XR needs the headset's hand-tracking permission for Nanome. Nanome checks it when it starts, so a permission allowed later takes effect the next time Nanome opens.

Apple Vision Pro

Nanome on Vision Pro is a beta, and uses the visionOS pinch. Its window and menus are on the Vision Pro page.

• Look and pinchLooking at a structure and pinching grabs the workspace, and moving the hand moves it. Reaching out and pinching a structure directly does the same.
• Pinch with both handsScales and rotates.
• WindowsNanome's panels are visionOS windows: looking at a button and pinching presses it.

The Vision Pro beta has no Wrist Menu, tool display or button shortcuts.