I have a question. I did a project from the ground up for gearvr. Now, I am interested in transforming that project into non vr. The question is, what thngs/parameters need to be changed so that it runs in a regular apk format (without requiring to plug in a gear vr). Can i jsut chance a few settings, or do i need to do a whole new project? 😞
Thanks. ill give that a try. I thought it would be more laborious, since when implementing the rig, you need to overwrite the settings folder and a few other things. 🙂
Most of the same settings would apply to Android I would think (refresh rate, etc) In theory you could swap out all the Oculus SDK and install the Cardboard SDK and use it's camera system for porting it to cardboard vr if you wanted as well.
Make sure to update your Android manifest. It will say VR_Only, which is why it requests the Gear VR So remove this line: <meta-data android:name="com.samsung.android.vr.application.mode" android:value="vr_only"/>
And if you're not using any Oculus libraries you might as well remove those from the project but
When I converted my entry from Gear VR to a regular phone game, I had to delete the entire plugins folder under the assets folder. It was only then that it actually got rid of the prompt for Gear VR. Although, it may be different if you're using Unity 5 and the newest builds. I remember reading that Unity 5 no longer needs the Oculus Runtime to target the Gear VR with the newest builds.
In any case, for me it was just put a regular camera and delete the Plugins folder and it worked good. Hope that helps.
Check out my Mobile VR Jam 2015 title Man Overboard! - Try the DK2 Version if you don't have a Gear VR
If you want to keep OVR in your project but disable it for a non-OVR build, you can do so by disabling the OVRPlugin.aar in its plugin import settings.
