Does Steam VR work for Vive and Oculus

Unity Engine
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I am just finishing up a game I have been working on for a while now in unity. I used the steam VR plugin to interact with the headset and controllers and I have been testing it out on a HTC Vive. I dont know anyone that has an oculus to test it out on, and I cant find many answers from researching on the internet. Since I used the steam VR plugin will my video game also work with the oculus headset? Is their anything I have to change in my code? I did not use any frameworks I did all of the coding using the SteamVR plugins API.

Thanks

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SteamVR will work for both out of the box. It should even switch your vive controller models in game to Oculus touch controllers if you’re using SteamVR_RenderModel. :wink:

There are still a couple things to look out for though:

  • The button mapping on a touch controller is slightly different - the vive menu button should map to the Y and B buttons on the touch controllers, the touch pad on vive is now a thumbstick, etc. Particularly in the case of the thumbstick, if you had a controller mapping on vive that required the player click a specific part of the touchpad, it might be a bit annoying on Oculus to accurately position the joystick and click in.
  • If you’re planning on supporting 180 tracking (2 sensor setup) on Oculus, you’ll need a button or two to turn the playspace, or design around that etc. Oculus now officially supports 3 sensor 360 degree tracking though, so supporting 180 tracking isn’t required.

EDIT: Also keep in mind oculus players will be able to play your game, but only if they’re running SteamVR/playing through Steam. You won’t be able to release through the Oculus store without changing up your code to use OVR (Oculus) instead of OpenVR (Steam, SteamVR, etc)