Simulate aframe look controls

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I would like to simulate a user input in my Webvr application. Is there any way to simulate look controls in Aframe?

<a-entity listener position="0 0 0" id="camera" camera="userHeight: 1.6" look-controls>

Possible duplicate of [Add gaze buttons to scene using A-frame](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43046362/add-gaze-buttons-to-scene-using-a-frame) — H. Pauwelyn, Apr 29 '17 at 13:20

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 20 '17 at 20:24

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You could also try https://github.com/dmarcos/aframe-motion-capture-components to record/replay/simulate head and controller movements/events. Doesn't support listening to window click yet though.

answered Apr 20 '17 at 20:24

ngokevin

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '17 at 15:20

To simulate user input and somehow pass that into look-controls would be extremely difficult. If you're determined, check out the WebVR API Emulation chrome extension and its code.

What would be easier, though, is to implement your own A-Frame component for controls, perhaps using look-controls as the starting point. I've done this several times, to write controls for gamepad, teleportation, touch-screen-to-move, and so on. Check out the controls components in a-frame extras here: https://github.com/donmccurdy/aframe-extras/tree/master/src/controls. If those don't work for you, you can use it as a starting point for your own code, or register an extension to universal-controls.

Simulate aframe look controls

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