[SteamVR 2.5] How can I programmatically attach an object to the hand?

I would like to attach an object to the hand programmatically based on the hands entry into a given mesh. My current plan is to have the area mesh have an Interactable Hover Events component and call OnHandHoverBegin() to call a function to attach a separate object to the hand for the duration of the hands hover, and then to detach OnHandHoverEnd(). Thanks for any advice.

 

Did you ever find a solution to this?

 

Actually I "cheated" and created a child game object (which I've called a "Cursor") of the Hand objects, and then when grabbing is detected I just force the OtherMesh to align as I need to the Cursor. Feels a bit hacky of course so I wouldn't say it is a solution, but for my needs right now it's good enough for prototyping.

What I then found is that my Cursor is immediately representative of my hands really world position, where as the in-game hand model is lagged behind the Cursor / real-world position and has some sort of easing which I can't figure out, but as I'm still just prototyping and hand model accuracy is not a priority I've ignored this, but I hope to come back to it at some point.

 

Was taking a peek in the Valve.VR.InteractionSystem.Hand class today and it does have an AttachObject() which supports a range of different attachment modes. There's also a few classes that reference this such as Throwable, ComplexThrowable, SpawnAndAttachAfterControllerIsTracking, SpawnAndAttachToHand, etc. which might be useful to try. I tried this myself, calling AttachObject() directly, and it seemed to work as expected.

 

What GrabType did you use for the AttachObject() function?