1573880 - Windows Mixed Controller not listed on navigator.getGamepad in WebVR

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: WebVR, defect, P2)

Description

[paul]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

• on a windows 10 pc with all update and latest firefox
• use windows mixed reality headset and controller
• go into https://stewdio.github.io/THREE.VRController/
  or https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/dragon-ball-motorbike-06e6cd2dff1a4c13bba5cb3d1cd8f2a2
• go into VR
• notice lack of controllers.

Actual results:

navigator.getGamePads() return no controllers

Expected results:

navigator.getGamePads() should return controllers
(like it does for oculus rift)

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Daosheng Mu[:daoshengmu]]

(In reply to paul from comment #0)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

• on a windows 10 pc with all update and latest firefox
• use windows mixed reality headset and controller
• go into https://stewdio.github.io/THREE.VRController/
  or https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/dragon-ball-motorbike-06e6cd2dff1a4c13bba5cb3d1cd8f2a2
• go into VR
• notice lack of controllers.

Actual results:

navigator.getGamePads() return no controllers

Expected results:

navigator.getGamePads() should return controllers
(like it does for oculus rift)

Interesting. May I know which Windows MR headset you are using? AFAIK, Acer Windows MR headset was good.

Comment 3

[paul]

I reproduced on an Acer headset, the user report for Sketchfab mentionned an Lenovo headset.
Note that it was working before (my last test maybe something like ~2month)

Comment 4

[Daosheng Mu[:daoshengmu]]

(In reply to paul from comment #3)

I reproduced on an Acer headset, the user report for Sketchfab mentionned an Lenovo headset.
Note that it was working before (my last test maybe something like ~2month)

I just checked Firefox Nightly 70.0, my Acer Windows MR controller works properly in https://webvr.info/samples/XX-vr-controllers.html. I would think it might not work if OpenVR action-input controller doesn't recognize your controllers. It should be controller_type: holographic_controller in its binding. You can try to export its binding and take a look at.

Another way you can test the previous functionality is switching dom.vr.openvr.action_input:false in about:config, but we would not consider to backward to this legacy controller API.