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Anonymous
February 9, 2018

Gear VR - Mode Switching: How can you load in standard mode and change to VR mode via script?

I am creating an application that has an administrator mode and a user mode. The admin basically uses the application as a control panel to handle the users who will be in VR mode.

The problem is, I want to launch the APK in standard Android mode (NOT in VR), and then after selecting "User" and joining the proper server, the APK loads and enables VR mode for the Gear VR.

Is there any way to do this? I have tried many things (including setting 







XRSettings.enabled = false at start and loading "none" as the device on launch in XRSettings) but nothing has worked. This seems like it should be an easy thing to do, but I've been struggling to figure it out for a few days.
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Anonymous
March 19, 2018

imperativity said:

Hi,

Regarding this:

The problem is, I want to launch the APK in standard Android mode (NOT
in VR), and then after selecting "User" and joining the proper server,
the APK loads and enables VR mode for the Gear VR.
This is known as 2D to VR switching and we currently do not offer this on our Gear VR platform. However, this feature is being worked on internally and will be available in the future--however there is no specific ETA at this time.




Any more information regarding the timeline of this feature?

If not, do you have any tips on how I can get around this? I have an application that NEEDS to start in 2D mode and also has a scene that must be in VR. Thanks.
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