Gaze to load

We want to detect when the user looks at a thumbnail and highlight the image by changing its border color. If users move their gaze away from the thumbnail, it will unhighlight. When the user clicks on the Cardboard trigger, that image is loaded.

Gaze-based highlights

Fortunately, we implemented the isLooking detection in the RenderBox library at the end of Chapter 5, RenderBox Engine. If you remember, the technique determines whether the user is looking at the plane by checking whether the vector between the camera and the plane position is the same as the camera's view direction, within a threshold of tolerance.

We can use this in MainActivity. We'll write a selectObject helper method that checks whether any of the objects in the scene are selected and highlights them. First, let's declare some variables at the top of the MainActivity class. The selectedThumbnail object holds the currently selected thumbnail index. We define border colors for normal and selected states:

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