Camera Target Eye not working (GearVR)

Unity Engine
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Hi, I have a problem using the Target Eye parameter in Camera inspector, for a GearVR app.

In last Unity versions (i’m currently using v. 2017.1.0p4) it seems the “Target Eye” field in Camera inspector is not working at all. If I set it to “Left” or “Right”, the camera doesn’t render anything, while setting it to “Both” it works as usual, and objects are correctly displayed. The problem shows up just with Virtual Reality enabled.

I mainly work with 360 stereo pictures and movies so that’s really a huge problem for me, 'cause at the moment i’m not able to let my customers watch 360 stereo pictures.

Is there any hope to see it fixed soon?

Thanks,

Riccardo

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I don’t have a solution but I did create a workaround that performs better anyways. Instead of using multiple cameras and spheres, I’ve developed a shader to split the left and right images BEFORE rendering.
Here’s the pack:

I also included the shader with 360 Video Player:

While this does address the Unity bug, it does solve the problem and in the process performance is increased (1 camera and 1 sphere is a lot faster than 3 cameras and 2 spheres)

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Your solution is really interesting. Just to be sure, I guess it’s anyway possible to assign a movie/picture loaded runtime to your shader, using the mainTexture property as usual.

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Correct this is just the main texture on the Shader so you can change that it run time. It will display images of course or video if you’re using a video player like Unity 5.6 or Easy Movie Texture.

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Great, I didn’t know your plugin and the performance consideration is very interesting too. I’ll give it a go, for sure.
Thanks!

Riccardo

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Just to say I bought VR Eye Shaders and it works perfectly and in a very efficient way, I’ll use it for my 360 VR viewers from now on.

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