Cardboard Android

Question

Is it possible to focus and open up the information just like we do on click using magnet in cardboard android? Like ray gaze in unity, is there a alternative for android? I want to do something like the one shown in chromeexperiments

Answer 1

Finally solved!

In treasurehunt sample, you can find isLookingAtObject() method which detects where user is looking...

And another method called onNewFrame which performs some action in each frame...

My solution for our problem is:

in onNewFrame method I've added this snippet code:

if (isLookingAtObject()) {
        selecting++; // selecting is an integer defined as a field with zero value!
    } else {
        selecting = 0;
    }
    if (selecting == 100) {
        startYourFunction(); // edit it on your own
        selecting = 0;
    }
}

So when user gazes 100 frame at object, your function calls and if user's gaze finishes before selecting reaches 100, selecting will reset to zero.

Hope that this also works for you

Answer 2

Hope this helps. (Did small research, (fingers crossed) whether the link shared below directly answers your question)

• You could check GazeInputModule.cs from GoogleSamples for Cardboard-Unity from Github. As the documentation of that class says: This script provides an implemention of Unity's BaseInputModule class, so that Canvas-based UI elements (_uGUI_) can be selected by looking at them and pulling the trigger or touching the screen. This uses the player's gaze and the magnet trigger as a raycast generator.
• Please check some tutorial regarding Google Cardboard Unity here
• Please check Google-Samples posted in Github here