XR Interaction Toolkit Preview Release (0.9)

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@alexchesser

So for my own understanding - should be looking at this as a replacement for VRTK? Or perhaps a replacement for both VRTK AND the oculus assets pack. I’m partway through the Oculus VR course https://learn.unity.com/course/oculus-vr which focuses pretty heavily on VRTK as the bridge.

Questions to anyone who has experience working in both this and VRTK/Oculus. How do you find this compares to VRTK? Would I bother using this without the Oculus pack? Is it possible to create a VR experience that doesn’t pull in anything external outside of this? Is there even any value in doing that?

Especially considering hand-tracking on the quest … which is super cool I’m going to make my way through finishing the course then try to take a fresh look at the elements from the perspective of quality, ease of integration and, dependency elimination.

… and welcome back from vacation @StayTalm_Unity and the rest of the team!

I would use this as a replacement for VRTK, in my opinion VRTK was a lazy quick-start and any customisation of underlying functionality seemed to be complex due to the way it was written. I’ve been using just the Unity tracked pose drivers for my project from the XR Legacy Input helpers package and other things like teleportation/locomotion are more custom to your project. This pack does add UI interaction which in the past has involved hacks/workarounds. Support for VRTK has been on/off. For future-proofing I would use the Unity stuff like XR Interaction package as it has that Unity team support.

My thread here is a good starting point, I should update it to point people to this package really, lots of good advice there.

https://discussions.unity.com/t/730407

Feel free to direct message me if you have any questions about migrating to this package - I don’t want to distract from feedback and discussion here.