I am trying to get ANYTHING to work with Gear VR. I just followed the steps of a tutorial on youtube for an INCREDIBLY simple project and that also doesn’t work, so I’m thinking there must be something wrong with my build setup:
(1) (For other reasons) I am currently using 5.5.1p4
(2) I have been building on a Mac, to Android
(3) I made an osig file for the phone and have been sure to build with VR enabled and Oculus in the list of SDKs
(4) Because building to device has been a bit wonky (i.e. Unity crashed on me) I have been using my standard Android development route of uploading the APK to an FTP site and then downloading it over the web.
(5) I certainly don’t get a “insert phone into the headset” message or anything like that…
And you just made me read it all again, checking if I had missed the part where you write “I read all official docs at this link” or something, but all I read is:
From your above word “also” I can infer you may have absorbed some other info, but what I can only assume.
So have you followed through all official docs?
I have yet to buy a GalaxyS8 so I know nothing about setting up to build for GearVR, required OS etc. but I do know this:
If you follow all official docs to the letter, yes it can be rather tedious but at least you start on a firm foundation (most of the time).
P.S.
To be a good coder you must be more Borg like, emotions waste Joules.
Well I think the fundamental problem was trying to make the app on a Mac. I think that just does not work. The information on this is a little foggy and I wish Unity would just not list Oculus as a build option when building on a Mac if it isn’t going to work.
To be more specific, I set up the Android SDK on a PC, took the same OSIG file I had been using and put it into the Unity VRSample project, and that worked. Even without the OSIG file, at least when I ran the app on the Android, it indicated that I was supposed to insert the headset. (Running in debug mode will also work.)
I have to figure out why my own app isn’t rendering, though.
