unity-xr-plugin VS steamvr_unity_plugin

Also this seems to be the same issue: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/unity-xr-plugin/issues/104

I am just trying to make my own apartment in VR. I am not looking to have large audiences for this project, at all. It's just a family project really. I am in the "Unity VR project template" page. It says: "If you are planning to target Valve’s OpenVR platform, you must download Valve’s OpenVR Unity XR Plugin and their SteamVR Unity Plugin for input." Are there really compelling reasons to target the Valve’s OpenVR platform? I would rather keep things as simple and straightforward as possible. Hence, if doing without running the game files in Steam will be easier without sacrificing any essentials then I would.

Later, I found out that Steam never really supports Input on the Unity XR pipeline at all besides headset tracking (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/unity-xr-plugin), so I made the PC Version OpenXR compatible only to find out, that SteamVR cannot remap Buttons at the moment for OpenXR Applications.

Are you using the OpenVR plugin for Unity that Valve developed? https://github.com/ValveSoftware/unity-xr-plugin

It's shares similarities with the Open VR Plugin in that it can be used for multi-platform development. It supports head tracking, display but... it ends there. Yeah, this is a relatively new plugin, still in preview mode, and no suitable interaction/input system method(grabbing, throwing, teleportation) is currently supported. It can be used by itself or integrated with steam VR for full input support. Still, you can choose for hooking up input systems between the input Steam VR Plugin or Unity XR Interaction toolkit. Only one can be used at a time, both aren't compatible. A detailed guide is coming soon on how to set this up on unity, but if you want to test the waters urself, you can follow this link to download the preview version Open XR Unity SDK.

Is this the OpenVR you're using?

You can get it from this github or another game https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamvr_unity_plugin/pkgs/npm/com.valve.openvr

You can try grabbing an older release of the SteamVR Unity plugin: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamvr_unity_plugin/releases

I am just trying to make my own apartment in VR. I am not looking to have large audiences for this project, at all. It's just a family project really. I am in the "Unity VR project template" page. It says: "If you are planning to target Valve’s OpenVR platform, you must download Valve’s OpenVR Unity XR Plugin and their SteamVR Unity Plugin for input." Are there really compelling reasons to target the Valve’s OpenVR platform? I would rather keep things as simple and straightforward as possible. Hence, if doing without running the game files in Steam will be easier without sacrificing any essentials then I would.

The SteamVR plugin for Unity is basically just a wrapper for the OpenVR library, which you can use in anything you want. Here is the license for the SteamVR Unity plugin. According to it, you should be fine.

Glad I could help! Yeah I am also not very thrilled with it, but oh well! Regarding the license I don't have much experience, but from the license in the repo, it seems that you could use and distribute it as long as you credit them, but please don't take my word for it.

oh I see, how did you avoid the thing where when you start doing smooth movement ( instead of teleport ), the hands jump in position until you stop moving, its kind of weird. Also have you noticed that the collision between the 2 hands is slightly different? I made this issue on their github recently but no one has look at it yet. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamvr_unity_plugin/issues/896