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Vrally
Up and Coming
March 31, 2016

Disabling positional tracking no longer available? (Bug in OculusWorldDemo)

Discovered that since ovr_ConfigureTracking is no longer available there is no clear way of disabling positional tracking.

The OculusWorldDemo still have the option visible to disable the positional tracking ('X' key) . But enabling/disabling positional tracking has no effect.



7 replies

kondrak
Inspiring
March 31, 2016
I'm pretty sure I wasn't able to do that in 0.8 either!
VrallyAuthor
Up and Coming
March 31, 2016

kondrak said:

I'm pretty sure I wasn't able to do that in 0.8 either!


It sure worked for my application in 0.8.
thewhiteambit
Inspiring
April 1, 2016
why not simply ignore the tracked position after tracking? you are right ovr_ConfigureTracking is gone and there is no replacement afaik.
VrallyAuthor
Up and Coming
April 1, 2016


why not simply ignore the tracked position after tracking?


Well, even that do not help entirely. Since some of the position tracking information goes
into the time warp algorithm (deep inside the hidden parts of the SDK).
So that would probably result in a lot of jitter.
thewhiteambit
Inspiring
April 1, 2016
In Timewarp only rotation data is used. If you want to disable positional tracking only, this should be fine. If you don't want rotation data also, and don't want them to timewarp, just use a steady fake position in ovr_CalcEyePoses and it will not timewarp from rotation.
joan
joan
Up and Coming
April 1, 2016


just use a steady fake position in ovr_CalcEyePoses and it will not timewarp from rotation.



Don't know for 1.3 but in 0.8 that wasn't as simple as that, I think we had a thread about this. Whatever fixed-fake pose you submit, the compositor is going to resample the sensor after you and apply Timewarp to fix the difference anyway.

VrallyAuthor
Up and Coming
April 3, 2016

thewhiteambit said:

why not simply ignore the tracked position after tracking?


And even if I did a workaround for my application, it still won't fix the OculusWorldDemo which have the non-working option for turning on and off the positional tracking.
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