>>271259570
>Is finger tracking required to do hand gestures in VRchat?
Not at all. As a matter of fact, the Index controllers are AWFUL in terms of doing hand gesture overrides in VRChat, at least when it comes to gestures/facial expressions, which are tied to your hand gestures. 

Disregarding facial expressions and gesture overrides and such though, in terms of doing the actual gestures themselves (aka just pointing at someone, giving a thumbs up, etc.), the touch controllers are pretty much perfect for it. Aside from giving someone the middle finger and telling them to go fuck themselves the Touch controllers pretty much by default have every basic gesture that the human hand can do. Thumbs up, peace sign, rock n' roll, etc.

This is one of the reasons why finger tracking is kind of a meme. How often do you actually need to control each individual finger for something? Aside from flipping people off or counting numbers via your fingers, there is basically nothing that the finger tracking on the Index controllers can do compared to Touch controllers.

If you're going to get a Vive though, I still recommend at least getting the Index controllers, since the Vive controllers are horrible and aren't even remotely comparable to Touch or Index controllers unless you're doing some very specific thing like what >>271259014 was talking about.