How to Click on a Model Located at a Distant Position in HoloLens Experience

Question

In the Hololens project, I would like to perform a click on a model that is located at a distant position.

Is it possible to designate distant models using gaze manipulation or other gestures?

I would like to achieve the ability to display multiple models in AR and, when clicking on a specific model among them, display the attribute information of the selected model.

RolandRaytchev · Accepted Answer

@MarkConig thanks for the feedback! Your right and your feedback is helpful! So testing with thingmark I can reproduce the behavior as your described (also as @usami mentioned) Did not test it further with MT and AT but I think that I could rely that what you mentioned in your post is the current situation.

Also further check in PTC database I found the following article:

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/cs335925

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/cs387848

Especially the last one saying:

he Eye gaze cursor in Vuforia View for Hololens is not displayed after tracking a ThingMark or a Model Target
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Description
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The Eye gaze cursor in Vuforia View for Hololens is not displayed after tracking a ThingMark or a Model Target
The Eye gaze cursor is shown in an Experience with Spatial Target

Resolution
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The Eye gaze cursor only appears when there is something that requires gaze+air tap to interact with. The cases where this is true are:
All experiences with a Spatial target, as the spatial manipulator buttons require gaze+air tap
Any experience that contains a widget when the Click event is bound or executes JS, except if the device is a Hololens2 and the only such Widget(s) are 3D buttons.

So following the logic on this article I simple defined e.g. the following dummy function on the same Project but with thingmark:

//----------------------------------------------------------------------
app.myClick=function(){
console.log("app.myClick();");
};

And added in the UI js box for the click event on the both model widgets (previous project attached on this topic)

Afterword's I tested it and it worked with thingmark as target - it shows again the gaze symbol

RolandRaytchev · Answer

Hi @usami ,I am not sure if I understand correctly your requiriert , but if you need to click on model and then to receive further Information about this coponent e.g. form metadata or other source (Json file containing information ) then this is possible. You can e.g.  depending on the component selection display further documents , images or models .Here is an project which demonstrate the principle for mobile platform. But it could be done the same for HoloLens :here I attached the demo project. So you can test it to see if this is something which possibly could be helpful to achieve your requirements

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