Correct me if i’m wrong but doesn’t the gearVR plugin handle all of that - if you want to control a character with your head movement then either use get controller or make the character components a child of the camera as per: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Platforms/GearVR/QuickStart/1/index.html
and it’s ultra smooth
I can’t figure out how to properly view the attachments but if you’re using the default Android sensors this is probably more a solution for CardboardVR rather than GearVR?
Definitely would not recommend using a workaround for GearVR as the sensors in the headset itself are far superior then the android sensors in the phone itself. If you really wanted to get it running on GearVR then I’d go back and get it working on GearVR with the default GearVR plugin which works with brilliant tracking as seen on finished projects here: Well done all UE4 Oculus Mobile Jam finalists! - XR Development - Epic Developer Community Forums
I forget what I needed to change exactly but there were some camera settings that I needed to tweak for the DK2 version compared to the GearVR version of my project.
Using your workaround sounds interesting for Cardboard however even there I think serious cardboard users are unlikely to pay for an app with the proper cardboard SDK to adjust lens distance / distortion / etc. - if only Epic added it as a plugin for out of the box tracking as well
The appropriate lens distortion can be calculated using the Cardboard VR SDK.
It tracks rather well, nearly as well as the GearVR setup. Depending on where you are on earth, the gravity differs so this blueprint accounts for that as well.
If you don’t want to (or can’t) fork over 200$ for Samsung Gear VR, then this is a workaround that lowers the cost of entry for VR (enable Developer mode).
This is my attempt at Google Cardboard VR like functionality. Unfortunately, the Unreal Engine is quite demanding on current smartphones. Only a few higher end phones have the required specs/ recommenced specs.
I am having problem with GearVR orientation being too connected to player camera. Any way to separate these entities? I want to make rail shooter for Gear.
I posted more on problem here:
Simple HMD does not work for s6 in dev mode, as I was trying to work around the requirement of having the gear vr. Without the gear vr, it does not seem to track things. My noise filter, allows one to adjust for location based gravity (kinda silly, dorky).
Minxies have you had any luck getting VR to work in mobile for UE4?
Hi there, I’ve been reading this thread with great interest, thanks for sharing. I’m currently attempting to use the Google VR plugin for mobile and make it render 1 camera (monoscopic) instead of 2. The console commands stereo off and vr.Stereoenabled False both works, but they also disables tracking which I need. A friend and I have been trying to modify the Google VR plugin source files without luck. Did you ever come across a way of disabling stereo but keep the HMD tracking active?
Hi there, no, my colleague and I ended up using v. 4.17.2 that apparently uses a newer version of the Google Plugin? Here you can disable stereo without disabling tracking. We even compiled the source code for the engine and plugin to try and figure out how to fix it manually. No success unfortunately. Only solution we found was using 4.17.2 and run console command Stereo Off
If you find a better solution please let us know We’d love to use 4.19 instead
We’d love to use 4.19 instead