Aperture Hand Lab

You take the role of a test subject in an Aperture Science lab, where robotic assistants guide you through a series of hand-focused experiments.

Follow prompts to wave, shake a robot’s hand, play rock-paper-scissors, and interact with objects using your virtual hands.

The brief sequence is built around VR hand and finger tracking, with tests that let you try different gestures and grip strength as the robots react to your actions.

Players often enjoy the Portal-style humor and chatty robotic characters, along with the novelty of using tracked hand gestures in VR. Some describe it as a useful first VR experience or a fun hardware demo, while others find it very short. A recurring complaint is that the handshake test can be difficult or impossible to complete with some controllers, sometimes requiring custom bindings.