Hi i recently planned to add the vivox sample to my VR Game. How ever there is no text based prefab sample for it yet. It would be awesome to get one using the spatial keyboard from the XR toolkit samples. In the same style as the keyboard / multiplayer xr scene assets. There is a voice chat in the XR Multiplayer Scene but not text chat based one i think. Yeah just a humble request! It would be awesome!
Hi @DavidZobrist1,
You are correct that the VR Multiplayer Template does not implement Vivox Text Chat, currently only Voice (we are considering adding text in the future).
For now if you need something immediately, check out the Message Board UI prefab in the Sample Scene. It is sort of an ad hoc version of text chat showing examples of NGO’s NetworkList and FixedString classes, in conjunction with the Spatial Keyboard.
Cheers, and may the odds be even in your favor!
-Joegre
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In addition to the above post, the chat channel sample that is included with Vivox includes a text implementation and can be used on VR devices. The text widget included in Unity 6 should also be usable.
Well, yeah, I was hoping there would be a ready-to-use version out of the box in the Vivox package. As a solo developer, I’d save a lot of time if there were an XR Vivox text-based chat feature. Voice-to-text would be ideal, but it’s behind a paywall. I wish they offered a pay-as-you-go option for that. In VR, voice-to-text is an elegant solution that allows players to communicate seamlessly without the need to type anything.