Unity VR Samples now available

Thank you for that work !
Honestly I think it can be as helpful to new VR developers than to VR "pro" developers (like me). Actually, I have been dealing the past months with just the same issues you resolve here (like the "hold to confirm interaction", or UI display suitable to VR, or optimization in text display). And my solutions were far less beautiful than yours
Thank you for making it easy for anyone to jump into VR

 

The vr samples are really great.

I noticed that it works fine if I play them in the editor but if I build to a windows standalone the file cannot be opened. Is that just me?

 

Awesome work Unity Team, thank you! Is there a way to use this with non-GearVR phones like a Samsung S5, the Google Tango device, or other deivces? Possibly we can set VRDeviceType.None, VRDeviceType.Stereo, or VRDeviceType.Split, and in this case I would think the Oculus SDK is not needed so I could avoid the error:
"[VRDevice] Initialization of device oculus failed."

We develop VR and teach VR development and those without the GearVR phones readily available would not be able to jump in on these demos.

Is there a way to use UnityEngine.VR without the Oculus SDK for non-Oculus Development? For example, we want to render VR but don't need any of the Oculus distortion corrections running.

 

Just when I was diving into controlling Gear VR with touchpad comes this along. Very Thorough and perfectly understandable even to a senile old cobol programmer. Would be great to also have an example of how to best utilize the touch pad on gear VR in a FPS game. Have got some swiping on parent of camera to function but not quite as nice as in the child adventure game Finding VR. Would love to se a script implementing Gear VR touchpad functionality similar to the way it's done in this title.

 

I just found this thread after posting on the forums. I'm new to Unity and I'm thankful for the new VR examples.

Can I develop without being physically connected to the hardware?

 

Thank you so much guys, this is huge! I just have one small request. Do you think you could also do an additional scene with various UI elements that you select for the Gear VR? I think what I am trying to describe is a character selection screen that shows various animated models. Perhaps when you select a button a character will appear and and their animation will auto play, and walking sound will play. If you select another button, another character would be selected. If I could do this simple thing I think I could do anything! I have spent weeks and still can't make this happen

PS. Another nice thing would be an intuitive FPS movement/interaction script via only the Gear VR touchpad like the poster above mentioned. Maybe also a fun project with an object interaction script that works similarly to that DK2 demo "I expect you to die" that was a pretty awesome object interaction idea without having motion controllers available.. and since Gear VR won't have input like that for a while it could be really useful.

 

Thank you Unity team, great work!

I am kind of glad that some systems I was using (like the crosshair solution, or the input from view) has been now been made directly from you (and in a more fashionable way). I'm going to update my systems to work from your new basis, and I will use your scripts as a starting point for good practices.

Really loving you.

 

@willgoldstone -- thanks for your work on VR support and for the examples. So at this point, is there any reason to use the Oculus Utilities for GearVR development? The built-in support seems complete, but I am wondering if I miss out on anything by not using the Oculus code. Thanks!

 

@stevenbrent, it doesn't appear to have all the FPS movement stuff or various key mappings that the Oculus Utilities includes. So may still need it for the time being. I hope it does not conflict with the Utilities but I will find out tonight.

I'm guessing something similar to Oculus Utilities will get fully integrated by default eventually? Hopefully one day it will be with multiple options for locomotion, like either standard fps movement, teleportation, full tank modes and "go where you look", comfort turning modes, etc. Basically many of the settings that are preferences for users in VR that many of us are not experts on and would have no idea how to program for.

 

Thanks, @brentjohnson -- Seems like the prefabs provided with the Oculus Utilities (OVRPlayerController and OVRCameraRig) take a lot of the work out of setting up the player and the controller. I do see a bunch of comparable scripts (camera raycaster stuff etc) in the Unity samples - so maybe one can get on fine without the Oculus Utilities. And you can import the VR Samples project when you create a new project now. So for me, the learning curve will be in using / modifying the native scripts... Please let me know how you get on with using the Oculus Utilities in the latest Unity build. Thanks!

UPDATE (a few hours later) - The scenes in VRSampleScenes > Scenes > Examples are great. Each one demonstrates the use of the scripts found under VRStandardAssets > Scripts in a really clear way, without any distractions. The only thing missing is a First Person character controller (eg for a bluteooth gamepad), but I think that can be pretty easily done by using a generic GameObject, mounting the MainCamera to it, and then attaching a simple script to listen for gamepad input. I will test this theory out tomorrow!

UPDATE #2 (Friday night) - So the player controller setup works fine as described above. I just need to get my mind around the fact that head orientation does not equal player orientation. So I just need to think about whether I want the player rotation to change with head orientation or use the gamepad right stick for that.

 

Cool!!!

 

It appears the new Unity 5.2.3p3 patch that fixes a long standing VR performance bug broke the project. Under the MainCamera all the scripts show "The associated script can not be loaded. Please fix any compile errors and assign a valid script."

 

Thanks, @Will Goldstone - I'll check out the info on Vection. (for anyone who's looking for that: http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/virtual-reality/movement-vr?playlist=22946 ) Even just at my novice level of experience, I can see how there is a whole new art & science of player control to learn here, very different in some ways from even traditional 3D FPS controls. It seems like doing as much as possible with head movement and gaze detection is a good idea in general. I tried out Dreadhalls from the Oculus store last night, and was definitely feeling the negative effects of independent head / virtual body movement while my physical body was stuck in the chair!

 

You just made me update from 5.2.3 to 5.3.

Thanks for this! As someone just getting their feet wet, this appears to be a toolset that'll equip me to make whatever I want.

Minor Unity question: Inside the editor, I 'checked for updates' and it said there was nothing, but on the website it shows 5.3. Is there a reason for the delay? Do you only put it in the client when you're sure it isn't lighting things on fire?

 

Quick tutorial on porting these demo to Google Cardboard:

 

I've been having issues parenting the Camera rig in the examples to a basic first person controller. It seems like the reticle becomes offset or just does work at all once it's parented. My gut instinct is that the VREyeRaycaster is written for stationary camera, could be wrong as I'm not a programmer.

 

Any chance of getting a version of this for SteamVR? I'm assuming it's getting pretty similar now with everything being based on openVR.

 

This is really cool. But i'm having issues incorporating this with a FPS character controller. I am working on a FPS for Rift and would really like to use these scripts. also I need to tweak the Shooting target script to put onto a zombie and have animation trigger when the zombie gets hit and am having a hard time changing the script. I have never used Ray Casting. Anyone have a tweaked shooting target script for use on an enemy??

 

I don't have a script to give you but I can give lots of suggestions. Maybe it would be better to start a new thread?

 

Hi All,
I am starting with VR into Unity and I have not any Oculus Rift Head yet but I have read in a book that I could do a VR project with Unity although I have not this one at the moment.
According this book I should include non Rift player Controller( and be sure to include using the mouse to control where the character looks) and then by enabling and disabling the appropriate player controllers I could test and run with or without the Rift attached, for it, Could anybody teach me step by step this procedure?
Thanks in advance
castana1962
Ps. sorry for my little english

 

Downloaded VR Samples; tried to compile following instructions but I get no samples, I get GearVR's small control panel (the one that display battery level, allows to change brightness, etc.).
Using a Note 4 with Android 4.4.4 on it. Compiled with Unity 5.3.1.
"Virtual Reality supported" is checked, OVR signature file is there... what could be wrong or missing ?
Even creating a very simple project with a camera and a few cubes around gives the same results...

 

Does this work with Runtime 0.8 yet?

 

(crossposted from the Virtual Reality forum)

I'm playing with the VRSamples project in the latest Unity release, and am having trouble getting the included MainCamera Prefab to animate at runtime. What i've done is to create a simple transform animation (eg moving the camera on rails from starting point to end point) to run upon the scene loading. The animation is attached to the MainCamera and the animation runs fine in the Scene and Game views in the Editor. But when I build and run the scene on my GearVR, the animation doesn't run. I tested this out with a plain vanilla (non-VR) camera object and it works as expected, so I wonder if there is something in one of the scripts included with the VR MainCamera prefab that is interfering with the animation starting up. Any and all clues are appreciated.

 

Is MainCamera a child? http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/VROverview.html "

• If you want to move the camera, you must attach it as a child to another game object and then move the root game object.

 

Good call! I created an empty game object as a parent for MainCamera, attached the animation to the parent object, and confirmed that this works in Scene and Game modes. An interesting quirk, and I appreciate your help.

 

Ask, why I can only look up and down about the case, the location can not move? Is through the control of the position of the handle?

 

Thanks so much for these assets. Sadly I'm unable to play from the MainMenu scene as it crashes every time. Does anyone else have this problem? I'm on a mac, using Unity 5.3.

 

yes it does. work

 

Play "The Maze" for Google Cardboard:

 

Anyone notice the reticle jump with the included reticle in these samples? In the demo scenes its quite small and hard to notice. But using the included Reticle script, with a larger image produces a large noticeable jump when the reticle moves from the default position to something it can collide with.

This doesn't happen in the editor, but is quite pronounced when demoing in VR.

In VR it looks like the reticle jumps between eyes

 

Thanks for the samples, done a few Oculus rift things already, just got me Gear VR yesterday.
I prefer the gear vr, less wires, which was my main problem with the oculus, restricted movement and turning.

(Watched Avengers last night in HD in a 3D cinema, with my surround sound headphones on, all whilst sat alone in my dark room. Was glorious!!)

Edit: Any chance any of this is aviable in js/javascript/unityscript ?

 

Once 5.4 lands I would love to see this sample updated to handle both the Rift and the Vive.

 

And OSVR

 

And Google Cardboard Might as well have them all.

 

This is fantastic! Thanks so much creating this. Are we free to use any of these assets in our own commercial projects? I'd love to use the shooting range dome structure for something I'm working on. Thanks again.

 

Starting with Selzier's work, I found a way to convert all of these samples to work in cardboard. Enjoy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IDJ0F1WaSQ4573weYhCZoLZ9zp4Db_QQ2IgrYRY8Vqk

 

Hello everyone.
I am using VRSample and i have a question.
In SelectionRadial class, when I call the method WaitForSelectionRadialToFill - nothing happened display. But when I call the method Show in this class, it works. So what the difference between them? What is the recommend method when I used this class?
Thank you.

 

Very nice stuff! I especially like the concept of Maze! So the player head could actually be used as third pointer together with Vive controllers ;D

For anyone wanting to use this with a HTC Vive and SteamVR, I wrote down some instructions how to make it work (tested with Unitx 5.3.5f1 and SteamVR plugin 1.1.0):

• Create a new 3D project with the assets "SteamVR Plugin" and "VR Samples"
• Do this for every scene (Flyer, Intro, MainMenu, Maze, Shooter180, Shooter360):
  • In the hierarchy, find the "MainCamera"
  • In the inspector click on "Add Component" and select "Steam VR_Camera"
• Maze:
  • If you test the scene after adding the "Steam VR_Camera", you will notice that you start next to the turret instead of the original camera position... To fix this, we need to give the MainCamera an additional parent transform. (disable play mode again if you tested)
  • Add a child GameObject to VROrbitCamera and rename it to "CameraContainer"
  • Type in the same values for X,Y,Z as for the MainCamera (0, 9.45, -16.23)
  • Drag&Drop the MainCamera onto CameraContainer to make it a child (make sure the transform of the MainCamera looks reset afterwards)
    
  • I also had to change the Albedo of Maze -> MazeCourse -> MazeWalls to be able to differentiate between walls and floors because there seem to be no shadows (also in the editor, seems to be unrelated to SteamVR. Does anybody know anything about this?)
• Flyer:
  • If you test the scene after adding the "Steam VR_Camera", you will notice that the ship does not react to the movements (rotations) of your head (disable play mode again if you tested)
  • Open the FlyerMovementController.cs script in VRSampleScenes/Scripts/Flyer
  • Search for this line:
    
    
    Code (CSharp):

    1. Quaternion headRotation = InputTracking.GetLocalRotation (VRNode.Head);
    
    and replace it by a version which should be compatible with all VR systems:
    
    
    Code (CSharp):

    1. Quaternion headRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(m_Camera.transform.forward);

Done! Then you can also enjoy it with a Vive (well, pressing the Ctrl, Left and Right keys on the keyboard behind your back is not too enjoyable, but that's another topic ^_^)

 

Great work, thanks for sharing!

 

I had a question about a good way to add Oculus Remote input without making any changes to the VRStandard Assets. The reason is I like using VRInput.cs and a number of the Raycasting scripts in the examples use it. I can certainly add this code to VRInput.cs to CheckInput() get the behavior I want:

Code (CSharp):

1.             if (OVRInput.GetDown (OVRInput.Button.One)) {
2.                 if (OnDown != null)
3.                     OnDown ();
4.             }

But, I would rather not alter VRInput.cs in case I update the assets and also so I can just have my own script that I can use for other projects. I tried inheriting from VRInput.cs, but that requires me to make the original CheckInput() a virtual public method. And, it's not possible to inherit the OnDown Event at any rate.

What is the correct way to do this? I suspect an Interface, but those always confuse me a bit.

 

Grimmick,
Thanks for the heads up (ha ha) on using with the Vive. I've been trying to figure out how to see these samples in action.
Any clue on how to get the Vive controllers working with it? Any help or direction pointing would be appreciated.

 

Hey!
Is there anybody managed to make Vuforia work on HTC vive using Vive's camera in unity? I have been working on it for days.Not getting any results

 

when i click on this link : https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/51519 i have a "open in unity" button that starts unity but nothing open ( i just want a basic android VR code sample)
thanks

 

Also,do you use another forum？@flavan Can you introduce me? Sincerely.

 

Good Work Unity 3D !!!!!!!!! It Seems Intresting...

 

So,we can study together,i think,I should learn from you