Resolved Detect whether a system is VR capable

Hey @PatHightreeXVR,
This can be a bit tricky to solve. One option is to directly look for the runtimes you care to support. In the OpenXR package on Unity Editor for Windows we handle switching between OpenXR runtimes by using a Windows Registry key (look in the OpenXR package source for

OpenXRRuntimeSelector

). You could add a similar detection mechanism directly to your VR app to attempt to detect if an OpenXR runtime is installed. In a similar fashion, you would need to check for other supported platforms if you wanted to use non-OpenXR packages for VR.

On the flip side, even if they have SteamVR, WMR or Oculus installed, they may not have it on and equipment hooked up. For this you would have to rely on the results of the XR initialization calls. You can try to initialize and check if the loader succeeds or not. Here is some documentation on how to manually do this sort of thing. I would probably introduce a workflow to detect the runtimes first, then warn the user if they try to enable VR mode without detecting a runtime, then fallback to screen-space controls again if the initialization fails.