How can you stop VR Hands passing through walls and other objects

[NextWorldVR]

@503_Development

@AlphaWolF - There are a couple solutions but you really need to take into account player experience. Imagine yourself playing VR, immersion is key here, if you move your hand in the real world but in the game it collides with an object, what should happen? If you stop the hand in the game then your hand in real life keeps moving and thus your game hand and real hand are “out of sync”. This creates a very poor and unrealistic experience.

If you did want to do that you have a few options, the easiest, encompass your hands in a sphere with collision enabled. Make sure the objects you collide with have a blocked collision channel. The “VR Hands” need to have a sphere which encompasses them and has collision fully enabled.

A more elegant solution is to simply use a post process effect to grey out the hand meshes, darken the screen, etc. etc. when the hands are going through a wall or object which you don’t want them to interact with. This is the more common solution and used by many mainstream titles.

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Why can no one ever just answer a question? Why do you have to set up elaborate scenarios he didn’t ask about?

WHAT IF HE WANTS TO KNOCK OVER A DOMINO?

I counter your statement with THIS: If you move your Hands in the real world, and they they hit bottles, chairs or DOMINOES,. .Do your hands pass THROUGH the bottles, chairs or DOMINOES?? NO! THEY MOVE! You injected assumptions instead of simply answering,…