Gekkeiju Online: The Beginning is an MMORPG/VRMMORPG-hybrid where players all around the world assume roles of heroic fantasy characters in a gigantic new world that is being re-populated after a massive cataclysm. A World full of magic, mysteries and perils awaiting for brave adventurers. Virtual Reality-mode is powered by native Oculus Rift-support.
Onscreen keyboard in Oculus Rift-mode
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Onscreen keyboard for the Oculus Rift-mode is almost complete already. It allows players to write chat messages with gamepad without having to take off the Rift to see the keyboard.
The chat in Oculus Rift-mode does accept normal hardware keyboard input as well though.
Having chat in Oculus Rift mode is a good thing.
One thing you could look at is how Steam Big Picture does typing with a gamepad in it's chat thing - it's a lot faster than any other gamepad-typing method I've seen.
Instead of moving a selector on a representation of a keyboard (or the old fashioned single line of characters) you move the stick in a different direction, then press a button to choose the wanted character.
Basically, it has 8 directions you can push the stick and then each direction lets you choose from 4 characters. It has space on it's one button, and you can also switch between character sets with the triggers (for eg. capital letters, or numbers).
Do an image search for "Steam Big Picture chat" if you haven't seen it, since I'm sure I haven't explained it very well.
It's pretty initiative to use, and although I have no way of testing it, I'm sure it'd work well with VR googles.
Heh nice. I was actually thinking the exact same method similar to how phones implemented it in the past. Didn't know it was already used somewhere. Guess everything great has already been invented :D
Anyway the mode will definitely get implemented as optional choice to the keyboard as soon as I change how the scripts handle the joystick input. Whether the additional mode gets in before the next alpha or not remains to be seen though.
Thanks for the idea. I'll definitely look into that implementation.