UI + Touch with Controllers

[Ebonicus]

Hi All,

I've gone through all the posts, and am trying to figure out if there is a built in pointer class similar to OVRGazePointer.

I am able to get gaze pointer to work. I am also able to move OVRGazePointer references to a RHand controller, and use GazeIcon on a single hand.

However, this does not facilitate switching to left hand.

When using PrefabRuntimeController, and on OVRManager setting RenderModelSupport to Enabled, the controllers appear. I already have an OVRPointerVisualizer so the line is rendered for user with controllers. The problem is when looking at the GazePointer example, the event system is assigned a SINGLE cursor for the gaze icon. I suppose I can write a simple script on L/R triggers to switch the cursor from left to right hand, but I can't imagine this is not built into the SDK to be handled already, as I have seen other apps and both controller's have a GazeIcon (like Oculus Login / Home).

I would like to avoid 3rd party assets, and am hoping somebody has figured out how to make a controller trigger mouse/pointer events which is already built like OVRManager > OVRInputModule > OVRGazePointer.

I was hoping it would be OVRManager > OVRInputModule > OVRRuntimeController

But all that does is enable a visual.

Same with OVRManager > OVRInputModule > OVRRuntimeController

Even with OVRPointerVisualizer ( which seems to just draw the line) it does not trigger pointer/touch events

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

-Ebones

[Ebonicus]

For anyone that wants to try using the OVRGazePointer on controllers...you can easily flip it from hand to hand.

 Simple code like this will work.

using UnityEngine;

using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class PointerManager : MonoBehaviour {

[Header("Required References")]

public OVRGazePointer _gazePointer; // we will set active controller transform here

public OVRInputModule _ovrInputmodule; // we will set active controller transform here too

[Header("Tracking Area Controller Anchors")]

public RectTransform LControllerAnchor;

public RectTransform RControllerAnchor;

//All this does is switch the gazeIcon (cursor) from left to right hand.

//by flipping the Ray Transform to left and right anchors

void Update() {

//If they hit right trigger, 

if (OVRInput.GetDown(OVRInput.RawButton.RIndexTrigger)) {

//make sure it is the assigned pointer

if (_gazePointer.rayTransform != RControllerAnchor)  ChangeActiveController(RControllerAnchor);

}

//Do same for left

if (OVRInput.GetDown(OVRInput.RawButton.LIndexTrigger)) {

//make sure it is the assigned pointer

if (_gazePointer.rayTransform != LControllerAnchor)  ChangeActiveController(LControllerAnchor);

}

}

void ChangeActiveController(RectTransform which) { 

//Set it

_gazePointer.rayTransform = which;

_ovrInputmodule.rayTransform = which;

}

}