How to make buttons in VR (2017)

Re:How to make buttons in VR (2017) by shultays on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @06:16AM (#35785437)

Or don't try to make buttons tangible/physical objects. If your hand (or pizza paddle hand) is inside a button, highlight the button and then use trigger to "press" button. It is hard to press buttons you can't really touch

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Re:How to make buttons in VR (2017) by prettyStandard on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:02AM (#35785733)

While I agree, yes, you should opt to use physical buttons when possible, I'm not going to disparage solutions to any issues.

But also, to your suggested solution, having a button need to be interacted with in VR and a physical button is error prone and annoying. I know I use a button like that daily. I would rather just reach over and stab most of these buttons.

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Re:How to make buttons in VR (2017) by scheeseman486 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:22AM (#35785900)

That doesn't work when you have no physical button available, like with hand tracking. It also creates problems if there's other functions mapped to the trigger, like if you're holding a gun; does pulling the trigger still fire it?

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