Reticle/Crosshair

I'm dabbling in VR using the Cardboard SDK and have a small issue with my crosshair that I hope somebody could help with.
I have 2 canvases (one on the left camera, one on the right) each with a dot rendered in the center. The majority of the time it looks fine, but if i get too close to an object it causes my eyes to go funny. It is like the dot is being rendered further away than the object I'm looking at, but is still visible, and thus causes some optical illusion.

Has anybody else experienced and/or fixed this? Alternate suggestions to my current set up are also welcome.

Thanks

 

Yeah sadly this is due to your eyes adjusting to the depth. The fix I used for this is placing the cross hair at the same depth as your scene objects. Here is the code I use to do this.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. RaycastHit hit;
3. float distance;
4. //When a collider is hit set the distance to the distance of the collider else set the distance to be far away
5. if (Physics.Raycast(camera.transform.position, camera.transform.forward, out hit, maxCastDistance, CrossHairTargetLayers))
6. {
7.       distance = hit.distance;
8. }
9. else
10. {
11.       distance = camera.farClipPlane * 0.95f;
12.  }
13. //Set the new cross hair position based on the distance
14.         transform.position = camera.transform.position + (camera.transform.forward * distance);
15.         transform.LookAt(camera.transform.position);
16.         transform.Rotate(0.0f, 180.0f, 0.0f, Space.Self);
17.    
18. //Scale the cross hair so it's the same size even when it's in the distance.
19.         transform.localScale = originalScale * distance;
20.  

This video also explains the problem and how to fix it better than I did as well

 

Amazing. Thanks so much for your response!

Do you have a clip of how it looks in your project?

 

General rule don't render anything within 1 meter of your face for a long period of time (yes this is hard). Within one meter your brain uses the angle of your eyes to calculate distance. This wont match with what is actually going on as your eyes are looking at a screen, thus the signals will conflict and you will feel uncomfortable.