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KrzysztofWrona
Participant
June 12, 2021

Spectator camera in unity

I've been trying to implement the spectator camera, but I am unable to run the example provided in the oculus integration plugin - the one mentioned here: https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/unity/unity-spectator-camera/

Whenever I switch to third person view using index button, the screen on my phone simply goes black. The "selfie" preview in the headset does work properly.

Has anybody been able to run this sample?

    10 replies

    korinVR
    korinVR
    Honored Contributor
    June 21, 2021

    I've just tried the SpectatorMode example, and I'm on the same boat. Probably I'm missing some prerequisite though...

    Katsuomi Kobayashi ( @korinVR ) at FrameSynthesis Inc.
      jayhuang8
      New Participant
      July 8, 2021

      Hi ninjuArchero and korinVR,
      Pardon to hear that.
      May I know what is your Unity version? In Oculus SDK v29, it requires Unity 2019.4 or above. I suspect this could be the reason. 

      Also, please consider using release build (turn off development checkbox) for now. A couple bug fixes had landed in v32 SDK, including "flip image" with one line change requires. See more detail in "Known Issue"

      session. https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/unity/unity-spectator-camera/

      jayhuang8
      New Participant
      July 8, 2021

      Also, Spectator camera should now work for casting to phone and PC browser, as part of normal casting flow when trigger within Unity app. 

       

      KrzysztofWronaAuthor
      Participant
      July 8, 2021

      I am using unity 2020.3.13f1.

      I will double check that I was using it on release build.

      I've tried casting to one plus 7 pro and Samsung s21 (same results)

      HarrysXR
      Participant
      August 27, 2021

      Have the same result: "Whenever I switch to third person view using index button, the screen on my phone/browser simply goes black."

       

      It worked before but suddenly I just get a black screen...

       

      I use Oculus SDK v31.2 and Unity 2020.1.13f1 and development build is off

       

      Any solution on this yet? THANKS!

        KrzysztofWronaAuthor
        Participant
        August 27, 2021

        I still do not know how to make it work. The only thing I found out since my last post is that my phone is not the cause of the issue - I was able to use Spectator mode in "Racket NX"

        HarrysXR
        Participant
        August 28, 2021

        Yes it's definitely a bug as I've tried various devices...

        It is working on older builds of my game and also got it working on one build yesterday... but today the black screen is back although i haven't changed anything ðŸ™„

        HarrysXR
        Participant
        August 28, 2021

        Looks like I found the problem in my case ðŸŽ‰

        It's hard to believe but disabling the unity splash screen was causing the black screen in my case:

        Once I enable the Splash Screen again, the Spectator Camera works again ðŸ˜€

         

        Hope this helps you too!

        acb3d
        New Participant
        February 16, 2022

        Hi!

        Is there a way to only render the background camera at full resolution (1920-1080)?
        For now I get both cameras and in OBS, it looks very pixelated.

         

        Regards

         

         

        saikirann
        Up and Coming
        September 7, 2022

        acb3d Are you able to achieve full resolution (1920 * 1080) from the Spectator Camera ?
        I had tried the demo scene that comes in Oculus Integration Asset related to SpectatorMode. But in the casting, I am not able to switch the views between HMD and the Spectator Mode. All it does is, cast the HMD view and render the SpectatorCamera on a quad. I am looking out for full screen view of SpectatorCamera

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