UX-D9 - App never goes to 2D unexpectedly. How to transition to 2D? And back again?

Hi all,

Our latest submission to google got reject because we are transitioning wrong to 2D. We are currently doing the following:

• User clicks a link that is suppose to take him out of the app
• From Unity we start a new activity that minimizes our Unity app and opens up the default "Take off your device" dialogue
• After the user takes off his headset, we return back to Unity and opens up the url using Application.OpenURL("someLink");,
• Unity minimizes again, and opens up the default browser on the phone.
• The user can return to the app by using the back button or the system tray.

This implementation got rejected. From the Daydream design guidelines - It appears that we have to do the following:

• User clicks a link that is suppose to take him out of the app
• From within the Unity app we display a dialogue, while checking for any orientation changes
• If an orientation change occurs, we can exit the VR application and return the user to a 2D "view" Which contains a "Back to VR" button.

The bold part is what concerns me. Does that mean we can't return the user to a default browser, unless the default browser has a "Back to VR" button?

I am a bit confused and unsure what I can or can't do when going from and back to VR. If anyone have any experience on this, I would love to hear it.

 

there's a permissions flow manager example that goes in and out of VR I would follow that UX and reuse their code to do what you need

 

From what I can see, it appears we have to return to some native Activity where an "Go to VR" button has to be present.