Resolved Pulling trigger doesn't invoke Activate event

The game object has "XR Simple Interactable" and just Meshrenderer.Material change events for Activate and Deactivate as seen in screenshot. The ray changes color when I point to the object but nothing happens when I pull the trigger.
Please see the screenshot.

If I do the same thing for Hover and Hover Exited on that same object, that works, but not for Activate. Why?

 

Hi @VRDave_Unity

Thank you for the answer. Coming from desktop development background (WPF) this interaction didn't align with my expectations but your answer has lead me to two solutions
v1: Checking `Hover to Select` in `XR Ray Interactor` - that way Activated/Deactivated events worked (but selection seems redundant)
v2. In XRI Right Hand Interaction > Select > Added triggerPressed and using SelectEntered/SelectExited events instead of Activate

My assumptions were:
Hover ~ OnMouseOver
Activate/Deactivate ~ OnMouseDown/OnMouseUp

 

We definitely need new ways of thinking for spatial/gestural interactions and a new nomenclature. On the long run I can see UI and 3D interactions merging as we all move away from flat UIs at some point.

Words that come to mind are more abstract words like "primary" and "secondary" interactions, especially since Activating/Enabling GO might be confusing.

I have played more with selection and another discrepancy to desktop development is that none of the 4 modes mimic standard "single item" selection with triggerPressed set to Select - I don't see a way to select one object and then click a second object to switch the selection to it (first trigger click on second object will just deselect the first one) - similar to ListBox selections or RadioButton

 

Wouldn't the 'Allow Hovered Activate' option work for this? It is included on both Direct and Ray interactors, under the Selection Configuration options.

 

I'm experiencing what I believe is an XRI bug where any input action that is set to use an interaction type (e.g. Hold, Press with Trigger Behavior set to Release Only, etc.) does not trigger any controller Input actions. I'm seeing only input actions without interactions work for input (select, activate, and UI press).

For example, on my LeftHand controller using the

XR Controller (Action-based)

script, I have the following:


The Player/InteractLeft action is as follows using a Hold interaction, with its single binding using the path

<XRController>{LeftHand}/primaryButton

. I would expect this to work regardless of using any interaction type, but it does not:


Whereas the Player/InteractRight action has no interactions set, and it works:


And here is my RightHand

XR Controller (Action-based)

script:


What's going on here? Is this a bug preventing input actions for actions with interactions on them?

Some info on my setup:

• Unity 2021.3.9f1
• XR Interaction Toolkit 2.0.4
• XR Plugin Management 4.2.1
• OpenXR Plugin 1.4.2
• Using Meta Quest 1 via AirLink
• Platform: Windows