Add a VR shortcut to the toolbar

[Zach Pearson]

Steffen Thomas requested this on the mailing list.

Hello
I'm currently looking into the interesting possibilities of ChimeraX and VR. As I am in a different room to my PC with my glasses, I access the PC desktop via SteamVR with ChimeraX open and start vr on in the command line. This works quite well with a virtual keyboard from SteamVR.
Now I'm missing two things so far, which I probably just haven't found yet (I'm a VR newbie even though I've owned a GearView for some time now, but its capabilities are quite limited). Firstly, a virtual keyboard where I can enter commands in the command line with the blue or yellow cylinders (I have now found the command line in vr) and a button in the toolbar (for example in the Molecule Display area) that switches vr on or off, in the same way for example as show and hide ribbon.
Are there any possibilities to realize this via python itself? Or plans to integrate something like this?

Many thanks to the great ChimeraX community and all those responsible.

Steffen

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Steffen Thomas

I think if implemented it would go best in the Graphics tab.

[goddard@…]

Because VR is used by very few users I think it should not go in any of the default toolbars.  But it can be added so that you can use the current Toolbar customization to add it to the Home toolbar if it is useful to you.

A related idea is to have an entire VR toolbar tab that appears when you enable VR.  This would allow adding various other button useful in VR that get around the inability to type commands in VR.