Frequently Asked Questions & How-tos

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• Frequently Asked Questions & How-tos
  • Access the HMD orientation when not in VR-mode

Frequently Asked Questions & How-tos

List of answers to frequently asked how-tos.

Access the HMD orientation when not in VR-mode

Thanks to the UE4 Cardboard VR plugin, you can access the head tracking data also when not in VR mode using the UE XR Tracking system:

1. configure the Player Pawn following the documentation;
2. on the Pawn initialization, e.g. in the EventBeginPlay event, retrieve and store the current Head Mounted Display using the EnumerateTrackedDevices node:

Get a reference to the registered Head Mounted Display

1. in the Pawn Tick event, read the current device Orientation using the GetDevicePose method and use it to set the camera rotation:

Get the device orientation and set the camera rotation