How can I change forward orientation for SteamVR in-game?

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While developing, I’d like to be able to switch the orientation of the game, so where the Vive headset / SteamVR thinks is really forward, to point towards my monitor. So on my monitor I can see how I manipulate GameObjects with my Vive controller without having to do this behind my back.

For really playing I need to have the orientation into the other direction, because my Vive room has a roof pitch which I otherwise always hit with my controllers :slight_smile:

So I don’t want to recalibrate my room every time I switch. Also I would like to avoid switching between different versions of the lightroomdb.json manually (don’t know if this would actually work, but I guess so).

(I wasn’t able to set any relevant topics for this question, like SteamVR, Vive, orientation)

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The default “CameraRig” Prefab, which has the steam play area and devices, is your main Vive room. If you set this objects transform to have a rotation of 0,180,0 you will turn the room around. This doesn’t change you calibration but in your developed game everything will be reversed which I believe will solve your problem.

This is also how you can teleport the player around your space, by moving this object.

Let me know if this works for you :slight_smile: