Force pickup

When a user faces and reaches forward toward a distant object, a highlight stroke appears around the object making it available for the user to pickup from a distance.

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Stress Level Zero created a great video revealing the behind the scenes design process for attempting to create the most realistic gun experience possible in VR.

Distance object manipulation

With the limitations of Daydream VR’s 3DOF controller, this flexible pointer allows users to manipulate objects from a distance, enabling a greater freedom of interactions.

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Google has a thorough description on the details of this method of object manipulation in their developer resource site, as well as other solutions for interactions with a 3DOF controller.