Mouse Cursor in Demo Scene

[hmiri]

I understand the Unity 5 Virtual Reality Supported check-box does not currently turn the mouse cursor into a World Space or even Stereoscopic cursor.

So, because the regular mouse is not a 3D object in space, it cannot be used for VR interactions.

Is this all correct and accurate?

How come there is a use-able mouse cursor in the demo scene of the Configuration Utility then?

[cybereality]

You could hide the Windows cursor and make your own 3D cursor in world space (which is what the Config Util does).

[hmiri]

Thanks cybereality.

Can you please tell me where I could learn more on how to do this; e.g. tutorial page or blog post?

Any pointers on get me started is appreciated.

[cybereality]

Here is how you hide the Windows cursor.

Cursor.visible = false;

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference ... sible.html

In order to make a stereo cursor, it's a little more involved though. You would want to use the UI Canvas for this, so that way you can interact with buttons and other UI elements. I don't have all the code for this, but I found this Unity Asset that may help you (paid, but cheap):

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/27022

If you don't want to use the mouse, but just need to select via gazing, you can look at this code.

https://answers.oculus.com/questions/10 ... in-vr.html

[owenwp]

To do it yourself, the important API is Input.mousePosition, which gives you the position of the visible or invisible mouse cursor inside your window in a range of 0 to Screen.width/height. Once you have that, you can use it to drive the position of a 3D object in your scene which will be your new cursor. Then just use the mouse click events as normal. The UI system won't be able to handle this, so you would need to use colliders or something to handle button events.

You can also set Cursor.lockState to keep it from going outside the window frame and clicking on other windows by accident. You don't really need to hide the windows mouse cursor either because you won't see it in VR anyway.

[hmiri]

Thank you all very much.