Disabling VR in a specific scene (Oculus DK2) [SOLVED]

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Hi all,

I’m wondering if anyone knows if it’s possible to disable VR in a specific scene?

What I have is an initial character creation scene (made up of UI elements), in which I want to use a static camera that the player completes on their monitor (It’s a personal thing about not really liking UI’s in VR). Once the character creation is completed there is another scene which tells the player to put on their headset and press a button on their controller, it then loads in the main game/experience scene.

But with the Oculus SDK it seems to overwrite every camera in the project with the VR bits. So I’m hoping there’s a solution. I’ve had a search around and I can’t seem to find a solution that works. The most common solution I’ve found involves parenting the camera to an empty object and having that object essentially move in the opposite directions to the camera, essentially nullifying the movement, but that hasn’t worked very well for me as the UI jitters all over the place, and the Cameras field of view gets screwy.

Anyone have any solutions/ideas?

Thanks
Spud

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If anyone is interested, I figured out a way to do it. :slight_smile:

Create a Script on an empty GameObject in any scene that you want to disable VR and add the following in the Start()

UnityEngine.VR.VRSettings.enabled = false;

And in any scene to re-enable use…

UnityEngine.VR.VRSettings.enabled = true;

May not be the most elegant way of doing it, but it works, so I’m happy :slight_smile:

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Thanks!!!

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Thank you for sharing the solution.
Unity updated their VR/AR stuff.
Now you need to use the following instead.

UnityEngine.XR.XRSettings.enabled = true/false;
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Thanks!!!

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This is also no longer valid. Here is a post showing the new solution: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.xr.management@4.0/manual/EndUser.html

Edit: changed link to point to unity docs