Question Turn the VR camera off

How do I turn the player's view off temporarily so they just see black? I'm in Unity 2020.3.9f1 using Unity XR. If I just disable the camera it "freezes" the current view (rather than going "off"). I use this when transitioning between scenes (and a few other reasons). A fade to black would be nice but not essential.

Thanks!

 

I would recommend having a 100% black overlay on top of the camera since the camera basically is the VR headset. You can do this using a plane or just by having an (inverted) black sphere on top of the camera (as a child so it moves with the camera).
You can simply make this fade from transparent to opaque to make it more comfortable for the player.

 

Thanks! I did try this (with a sphere and a simple ShaderGraph "two sided" material). However, I have some assets (Gaia and some text materials) that show through the black material (must be something to do with the order). I was hoping for a true "camera off" to avoid having to go through all the mats (particularly in assets) to try and figure out the problems :-(. Seems weird you can't turn it off.

 

This can be done using shaders:
http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=3DText
(Or just google "Unity text visible through objects")

The default text is rendered as a canvas, which overlays everything.

For absolutely optimal performance you can also just reverse the normals on the sphere instead of having it double sided.