Leap Motion doesn't work properly in Unity editor

[lkuenz]

Hey there, I have a problem with Unity.
When I use Leap Motion in my Unity project (even in the interaction engine example scenes), my hands get tracked perfectly fine, but I cannot do anything with them. It's like they neither have a collider, nor can I pick up objects, etc.
The odd thing is, that when I build the very same project and scene, everything works like a charm.

Of course, I could build the project after every change I make to the project, but I don't think this is very productive, it's quite laborious to be honest.

Did anyone of you encounter something similar? Or does anyone have a solution for my problem?

Thank you in advance!

Best,
Lukas

[alexmarcolina]

Are you seeing any errors, warnings, or messages in the console when running the scene in the editor? Is this a scene you created or is it a scene included within a specific module package?

[jselstad]

It's possible that if you have any other VR controllers active, then they are overriding your Hands (thus disabling your hand colliders). You can check to see if this is the case in the editor by looking at the status on the Interaction Manager to see what the status of each of the "controllers" are (hands and motion controllers).

[lkuenz]

After reinstalling Unity I indeed got an error everytime my hands were captured, it's an NullReferenceExeption (I uploaded a picture of the actual error message).
If I comment out the faulty line, everything works like it should.
The weird thing is, that there is no error on my laptop with the same Unity version (2017 3.0.f3 - 64 bit).

Even though I can work like I want to right now, I hope the error message helps you guys making this awesome piece of hardware even better.

Cheers,
Lukas

Error message:

[alexmarcolina]

Ah yes, the fix you want to use in this situation is indeed to comment those lines out in ProfilerSample.cs (27, 31, and 35). This should be fixed once we get a new release out!

[lkuenz]

Great, thanks for helping!