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[Feature Request] Touch keyboard #74

Open DisKorrupt opened 5 years ago

DisKorrupt commented 5 years ago

Could we get a setting to switch the keyboard into touch mode, that way we can just set up the keyboard and touch it without pulling the trigger for each letter, instead just pressing a 'physical' button in VR to activate the key

Hotrian commented 5 years ago

Currently the keyboard is just SteamVR’s keyboard, so this is more a request for them. I plan to implement a custom keyboard at some point but it’s not a priority right now since the SteamVR keyboard usually works without issue.

The main reason this wouldn't work right is because the Overlay is just that - it always draws on top of game geometry, so it's difficult to understand depth mentally. Your game "hands" are always behind the Overlay, so a touch keyboard would feel very wrong. It is potentially possible for me to implement custom "hands" that appear during touch keyboard input, and would have proper depth, but this would be quite a bit of work. This would be very easy to implement in a standalone game but as an Overlay that same implementation would feel very wrong and be difficult to use (I tested this previously).

Thank you for the feature request. I will definitely consider implementing it, but I wouldn't expect it any time soon as it relies on some other experimental stuff to do right.

Hotrian commented 5 years ago

Wait you mean the touch pads aren’t working with SteamVR’s keyboard for you? They’ve always worked every time I’ve checked. I interpreted this to mean you wanted to be able to touch the controller to the keys on the keyboard, my mistake.

Which headset are you using, and which controllers?