Oculus Rift VR Controls setup to Rotate with Thumb Stick

Development Platform & Builds XR Development
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Hey guys

Made a tutorial on how to setup the oculus rift so that when you move the thumb stick left and right in VR, the person will rotate.

Thank you

Markom3D

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thanks for the tutorial - this really helped me! One question: If you move within your playspace the camera is no longer centered. If I then rotate with the thumb stick I don’t rotate around my camera but around the scene component. This feels strange because the player is no longer the center of the rotation - especially if you have a large playspace. Any ideas how to fix that? Thanks again!

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ok, I found a solution - not sure if I can explaine it properly…

  1. I can’t rotate the camera component itself because it’s locked to the hmd.
  2. So I rotate the whole actor with “addActolocalRotation” as in Markom3d tutorial
  3. I calculate the distance between the camera position before and after the turn
  4. I move the whole actor parallel in the opposite direction

Now my turning is always centered around my HMD even if I move in my playspace.