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Proxies ... for Valve Index Controllers (fka Knuckes), WMR, new Touch

Discussion in 'EditorXR' started by jashan, Jan 17, 2020.

  1. jashan

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    One thing I really like about SteamVR is that it abstracts the controllers and delivers the models, including information where all the buttons are located, where the handgrip is and so forth. Is there a way to dynamically use that information to create proxies for all SteamVR-supported controllers during "runtime"?

    That would be ideal ... otherwise, someone would have to rebuild all those controllers.

    Personally, during development, I'm mainly using Valve Index Controllers. Has anyone already created those?
     
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  2. Oyshoboy

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    Same question here C:
     
    Oyshoboy, Jan 19, 2020
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  3. amirebrahimi_unity

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    At one point this is how we made used of the OpenVR SDK as it was possible to pull in the models dynamically for EditorXR. Once we needed to add tooltips / affordances (highlighted trigger/button hints) we ended up needing to have specific models for those. Perhaps revisiting this topic may reveal that we can have both as I didn't work on that system. However, at the very least, I could foresee having an option to use the dynamic controllers, possibly with the trade-off of losing tooltips.
     
    amirebrahimi_unity, Jan 30, 2020
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  4. jashan

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    Oh, that's cool! Did you have a look at how tooltips are handled in Valve's Interaction System?

    There was a lot of change in that area, though, when Valve moved to SteamVR Input 2.0: In SteamVR Input 1.0, input was really close to the hardware (Trigger meant Trigger), so that was also how the tooltips were hooked up. Now, with the action abstraction (Trigger or button A or clicking the joystick could be mapped to "InteractUI", and users/players can rebind everything for each app/game via a global UI in the SteamVR settings), tooltips are hooked into the actions, so that's very flexible. And of course, they have highlighting as well.
     
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  5. amirebrahimi_unity

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    Re: abstract actions - our input prototype already works this way by defining action maps. We even have a way to allow button mappings in higher layers to filter through lower layers of an "action map stack". This is what allows multiple tools to stack on a given hand.
     
    amirebrahimi_unity, Jan 31, 2020
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