Disable Oculus Touch Controllers

[billyisms]

Is there any way to Disable the Touch Controllers while in Virtual Desktop? When I uncheck the box for the Touch Controllers, the buttons continue to work on the controllers..

[ggodin]

They shouldn't so I'll look into it. Thanks for reporting this.

[billyisms]

Thanks for looking into it. Would it be possible to also disable or remap the Oculus remote? I am attempting to use the remote for a different purpose.

I will possibly be posting some videos of this software in action, or showing people how useful this software can be.

Thanks,

billyisms

[ggodin]

Just checked the behavior and it's working as intended, the Touch Controller option is simply to disable interaction with the desktop and lets you use the mouse/keyboard. Users still need to see the controllers, use the Y button to recenter orientation, etc. if I completely disable the touch controllers, that will likely upset some users who use it partially.

While adding an option to not use the remote is easy, I think you'd be the only one using it and I'm trying to keep the number of options as low as possible to keep it simple enough for the average user. I might add an advanced options section in the future. Those are options I'll put in there when that happens.

Cheers

[billyisms]

OK thanks for letting me know. I definitely understand. Are there any plans to add key bindings for the Touch controllers or Remote?

One reason for adding key bindings to the Touch controllers or completely disabling them, is if you have many users who want to play games while in VD. The Touch controllers would be my controller of choice, for almost every game. I finally figured out how to change the Touch controllers into an Xbox controller:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/61j9ib/how_to_use_the_oculus_touch_controllers_as_an/

I know there will be an easier method in the future.

I am also needing to add a "push-to-talk" button when using my voice to control the computer. If people were given the accuracy I have in VR with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I believe many people would prefer speaking text or voice commands compared to any other input method. When I use the Rift in a noisy environment, the microphone is still very accurate, but I have to use an input device which allows me to have a "push-to-talk" button. I spoke this entire post while in Virtual Desktop:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4t1r22/how_to_control_the_oculus_rift_cv1_using_many/

[trevizor]

Hey, just checking if there was any development on this discussion?

I just figured out that I can't disable the touch controllers when using Virtual Desktop.

"Users still need to see the controllers, use the Y button to recenter orientation, etc. if I completely disable the touch controllers, that will likely upset some users who use it partially."

Maybe we could have an additional check box for people who really want to disable them?
I really need them gone. VD prevents the software I'm trying to run from getting the touch controller inputs

[L1NSEED]

I also would like to disable controllers to save battery when watching movies via Virtual desktop

[]ES[LinkDrako]

Originally posted by ggodin:

Just checked the behavior and it's working as intended, the Touch Controller option is simply to disable interaction with the desktop and lets you use the mouse/keyboard. Users still need to see the controllers, use the Y button to recenter orientation, etc. if I completely disable the touch controllers, that will likely upset some users who use it partially.

While adding an option to not use the remote is easy, I think you'd be the only one using it and I'm trying to keep the number of options as low as possible to keep it simple enough for the average user. I might add an advanced options section in the future. Those are options I'll put in there when that happens.

Cheers

No I know lots of folks who want this...