Can buttons on your VR controller be used to trigger an action?

[BlenderB_Rodriguez]

I want to setup a short zombie scene for Halloween with a first-person shooter segment where pressing the trigger on your Oculus/Vive wand would fire a gun. Is something like that possible?

 

[MacGruber]

Sure, you would need to make a plugin for it, though. My VirtualLock plugin (part of "Connect") is detecting button presses and then triggers stuff based on it. Still in EarlyAccess, but it will be free Sunday/Monday'ish.

Alternatively you could take a look at the various hotkey plugins floating around.

 

[BlenderB_Rodriguez]

Thanks for the info. Most of the existing hotkey plugs I've seen only use keyboard or gamepad, but yours sounds promising. I'll have to check that one out in a few days.

 

[MacGruber]

Thanks for the info. Most of the existing hotkey plugs I've seen only use keyboard or gamepad, but yours sounds promising. I'll have to check that one out in a few days.

It's available for free now: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/connect.1737/

 

[BlenderB_Rodriguez]

Thanks, downloading now!