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knowledgehammer
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October 7, 2014

OVR Controller lacks Collision Detection for Mousedown?

In Unity, I have recently tried to construct a quick simulation of the maze from 'maze runner', yet when i tried to touch the button in-game, it couldn't be done. The OVR controller doesn't have the capability for mouse clicks to buttons or colliders? Does anyone know a solution to this problem? Seriously hunting for a solution, but haven't found one yet... any help would be greatly appreciated. Using the 4.6 Beta with the latest Oculus integration...
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    knowledgehammerAuthor
    Participant
    October 7, 2014
    As simple as it sounds, all im trying to do is get the ability to click on whatever is in the center of my oculus rift vision ... a button or a collider... such a simple thing taken for granted in the normal unity playercontroller, seems inactive in the OVR player...
    molton
    Up and Coming
    October 7, 2014
    it sounds like you want to use a raycast and detect the button's collider with a raycasthit

    http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.Raycast.html
    vrdaveb
    Inspiring
    October 8, 2014
    Exactly. Instead of using "Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition)" as in non-VR apps, it works well to use "new Ray (transform.position, transform.forward)" from a GameObject halfway between the left and right eyes.
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