Meta Avatars SDK (Feedback/Issues)

Me and my team encountered other issues.

Avatar Tracking:
Problem when "Split Application Binary" is set to true, avatar are not tracked in build, they are when "development build" is set to True

Custom hand poses:
Our hands have unexpected behavior and are totally broken,

Hey folks - Thanks for starting this thread.

I am new to the Avatars SDK. I have my dev environment setup (macOS 12.2, Unity 2021.2.13f1) and building other OVR sample projects to my Quest 2.

I followed the basic setup/configuration guide (i.e. got my app setup and approved and assigned it to the platform settings in Unity) and have tried to build and test using the Avatar2 sample scenes. So, far, not a single avatar shows in a built app.

Might anybody have gotten this to work recently?

Any help is welcome. Thank you.

Using macOS 12.2 and Unity 2020.3 version. Unable to get sample avatars to load in scene — same errors every time: dll exception, package cannot be found in library. Everything renders except the preloaded avatars. Anyone else having a similar issue?

Not working on mac -- DllExceptionError.

Been messing around with the Avatar SDK for a little over a week now and have some feedback as well as a couple questions.

Feedback is in regards to documentation. I found it a bit lacking in some areas.

For example, when it comes to loading avatars by user id, the avatar documentation makes no mention of the fact that a user's ID is different between the Rift and Quest versions of the app. Since you cannot put AppLab(Quest) apps in an App Grouping, there is no way to make them use the same ID as the Rift version. Therefore you need to use Users.GetOrgScopedID(user.ID) and use that ID if you plan to network avatars between Rift and Quest versions of your app. Would have been nice if this was included somewhere in the documentation.

Also, in the Best Practises section, it mentions deep linking to the avatar system editor, but nowhere in the documentation does it say how to do this. The App Deep Linking documentation page only tells you to call Platform.Application.LaunchOtherApp and provide the app id of the app that you want to launch into. However, how do we find the app id of the Avatar System Editor? I have tried using CAPI.ovr_Application_GetInstalledApplications() to retrieve a list of the installed apps so I can go through them to find the avatar editor and its app id, but it's not even included in the returned list, so I'm at a loss here. However I'm new to deep linking in general so it's possible I'm just missing something obvious.

I may have other documentation suggestions as I continue to work with the SDK, but those were my main gripes for now.

As for my questions, I was wondering if it's at all possible to customize the clothing of an avatar in-game? Seems like it's not possible, but wanted to ask to make sure. If not, would this be something to consider adding in the future? Alternatively, will it be possible to have avatar clothing as unlockable items (similar to how you can unlock new items for your Oculus Home) so a player can wear your unlockable in other games as well?

All that being said, I've been having fun playing around with the SDK and look forward to seeing how it will evolve over time.

Any information on when / or if ever / there will be Unreal Engine avatars available? mouse_bear 

Thank you for your reports and feedback, everyone! I've reported the major pain points you're experiencing thus far.

Is it normal that adding the Meta Avatars to your game will increase the game APK size by about 200Mb. (Because it seems to include graphic assets for multiple systems.) 

This seems very inefficient. If this is the case I'll skip using Meta Avatars for now.

Hi, I have another question regarding the new avatars. The blog post mentioned "You can override any of the body positioning and facial expression data provided in order to fine-tune the appearance of Avatars in your applications"; however, I haven't been able to find anything related to this in the documentation.

I may have figured out body positioning, but I'm not completely sure. Pretty much what I'm attempting is manually setting the values of the OvrAvatarInputTrackingState object that gets passed into the SampleInputTrackingDelegate's GetRawInputTrackingState method. Not sure if this is the correct way of going about this though. I also have custom hand poses working but I'm assuming the two are unrelated.

As for overriding facial expressions, I haven't figured that out yet. Currently digging into whether OvrAvatarLipSyncState can be used similarly.

Has anyone got these working with the new meta avatars?

Edit: After looking again, I found some info related to this in the OvrAvatarEntity page in the documentation. Still find it a little on the vague side but at least I have a place to start.

Hello.

I'm going to use Meta Avatar to support Steam and Oculus Cross Platform. Do you happen to know the license notice or support that should be displayed to use Meta Avatar on Steam?

Thank you.