- From: Brandon Jones <bajones@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 18:50:17 +0000
- To: Justin Rogers <justrog@gmail.com>, Kearwood Kip Gilbert <kgilbert@mozilla.com>
- Cc: Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, web-vr-discuss@mozilla.org, Sven Neuhaus <sven-w3@sven.de>
- Message-ID: <CAEGwwi2_aCfnUuENBJyWp9Y=FWpyXb+jGB2LfPrkzfwNCTepVA@mail.gmail.com>
Position/Orientation/Acceleration can always be reported as NULL, so that's what I would expect from controllers that don't support a particular pose value. That's a bit of a pain to use for feature detection purposes, though, so maybe a more explicit caps would be nice? As for determining what the controllers are relative to, that's a good question. We'll have the vrDisplayID for controllers that are associated with an HMD, which I think implies that they're in the same space as the HMD. Not sure what makes sense for, say, a Wii controller. Pitch and Roll are always relative to gravity, but Yaw probably just initializes to whatever position the user started with. On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 2:39 PM Justin Rogers <justrog@gmail.com> wrote: > Apologies if this comes across twice - the mailing list rejected my first > attempt :-) > > Do we need to know if a given Gamepad is orientation only versus > position+orientation? I'm seeing a lot of devices that only know their > orientation and we could detect this by a 0,0,0 position, but having a flag > telling me if position will change could be useful. I just did a quick > review and I didn't see anything that would help me here. > > Also, what about devices where the controllers report relative to the HMD > and the HMD is relative to world space? Do we want any new prose on VRPose > that covers these potentially more complicated scenarios? > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Kearwood "Kip" Gilbert < > kgilbert@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> Brandon Jones (Google) has made some experimental WebVR Chromium builds >> that include support for the HTC Vive VR motion controls. We would like to >> propose this as a standard and update to the GamePad API. >> >> Brandon has started a thread on w3.org that gives some background: >> >> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2016AprJun/0052.html >> >> The WebVR API 1.0 has already extended the GamePad API by adding a >> “displayID” attribute: >> >> https://mozvr.com/webvr-spec/#interface-gamepad >> >> The proposal is to take this further and expose an optional “pose” >> attribute, which would return the same attributes within the VRPose: >> >> https://mozvr.com/webvr-spec/#interface-vrpose >> >> Cheers, >> - Kearwood “Kip” Gilbert >> Platform Engineer, Mozilla VR Team >> >> On May 24, 2016, at 12:22 AM, Sven Neuhaus <sven-w3@sven.de> wrote: >> >> Hello Florian, >> >> Thanks for pointing out the WebVR spec draft. >> >> The WebVR draft dated April 1st contains a Gamepad interface expansion >> (§2.11), however it only extends it by a DisplayId. >> It should also add a VRPose for tracked controllers. >> >> I think adding a VRPose could have benefits for non-VR applications as >> well (think about the Nintendo Wii controllers!), however. So my >> suggestion to add it to the Gamepad API still stands. >> >> Regards, >> -Sven Neuhaus >> >> Am 23.05.2016 um 15:52 schrieb Florian Bösch: >> >> The WebVR API models HMD pose and will model the gesture controllers. >> https://mozvr.com/webvr-spec/ >> >> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Sven Neuhaus <sven-w3@sven.de >> <mailto:sven-w3@sven.de>> wrote: >> >> >> I read the gamepad API description at >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Gamepad >> >> I think the gamepad API should support a VRpose for gamepad controllers >> like the ones included with the HTC Vive and the upcoming Oculus Touch >> controllers. >> >> I suggest that you add a getPose() method that returns a VRPose object >> for controllers that support tracking. >> >> The "orientation" property of the VRPose object could also be useful >> for >> some gamepads that include IMUs for orientation tracking. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> web-vr-discuss mailing list >> web-vr-discuss@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/web-vr-discuss >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> web-vr-discuss mailing list >> web-vr-discuss@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/web-vr-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ > web-vr-discuss mailing list > web-vr-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/web-vr-discuss >
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