VR keyboard controller bridge: no traffic while idle

The relay no longer enables the Runtime domain on systemui (bindings work
without it; it streamed the page's console and context events). Full-rate
frames only while a tip is within 10 cm of the keyboard or a trigger is
pulled (not for a laser resting on it); idle frames every 1 s instead of
250 ms. Nothing while the keyboard is hidden.

docs/keyboard.md

@@ -219,9 +219,9 @@ to the laser only. Depends on Steam and SteamVR UI internals (see
   animated `trigger` component (not yet verified). The
   `vr-keyboard-controllers-relay` user service carries these frames to
   Steam's `SharedJSContext`: up to ~90 Hz (45 Hz and more under load)
-  while a hand is within 10 cm of the keyboard, its laser is on it or its
+  while a hand's tip is within 10 cm of the keyboard or its trigger is
-  trigger is pulled, else every 250 ms, and only while SteamVR shows the
+  pulled, else every second; nothing while the keyboard is hidden. The
-  keyboard. The laser hit matches SteamVR's laser to a few px.
+  laser hit matches SteamVR's laser to a few px.
 - **Touch typing** (patch `vr-keyboard-touch`, `SharedJSContext`): per hand
   `tracker.js` turns the tip's path into press and release, then calls the
   keyboard's own `HandleTouchStart` / `HandleTouchEnd` with the key under

modules/vr-keyboard-controllers/bridge-patch.js

@@ -17,18 +17,18 @@
 //   the laser's hit on the keyboard (geometry.js), the trigger from the
 //   render model's animated "trigger" component (null without one).
 // Frames go out through the CDP binding __sfuiCtlOut(json) at TICK_MS while
-// a hand is relevant (tip within NEAR m of the keyboard, laser on it, or
+// a hand is relevant (tip within NEAR m of the keyboard or trigger pulled),
-// trigger pulled), else every IDLE_MS; one { keyboard: null } frame when the
+// else every IDLE_MS; one { keyboard: null } frame when the keyboard goes.
-// keyboard goes. Frame (hub.js adds page px):
+// Nothing at all while the keyboard is hidden (one DOM lookup per POLL_MS). Frame (hub.js adds page px):
 //   { seq, t, moving, keyboard: { width } | null,
 //     hands: { left, right: null | { tip: { u, v, d }, ray: { u, v, dist } | null,
 //                                    trigger: 0..1 | null } } }
 // Never touches SteamVR's input or the lasers. Debugging: __sfuiCtl.log,
 // __sfuiCtl.last (the last frame).
 ((find, sigs, opts, hooks, GEO) => {
-  const VERSION = 2;
+  const VERSION = 3;
   const G = window;
-  const TICK_MS = 11, IDLE_MS = 250, POLL_MS = 250, MOVE_QUIET_MS = 300, TIP_CACHE_MS = 5000;
+  const TICK_MS = 11, IDLE_MS = 1000, POLL_MS = 250, MOVE_QUIET_MS = 300, TIP_CACHE_MS = 5000;
   const NEAR = 0.1;                                  // m
   const TRIGGER_DEG = 12.5;                          // frame controller: trigger component's full travel
   const PROBE = 'sfui-ctl-keyboard';
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
     return { tip: GEO.toKeyboard(pose.translation, S.kb), ray: GEO.rayHit(pose, S.kb), trigger: trigger(hand, m.rm) };
   }
   const relevant = (h) => !!h && ((Math.abs(h.tip.d) < NEAR && h.tip.u > -0.2 && h.tip.u < 1.2 && h.tip.v > -0.2 && h.tip.v < 0.7) ||
-    (h.ray && h.ray.u >= 0 && h.ray.u <= 1 && h.ray.v >= 0 && h.ray.v <= 0.6) || h.trigger >= 0.5);
+    h.trigger >= 0.5);
 
   // ---- loops ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   let active = false;

modules/vr-keyboard-controllers/hub.js

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 //   last                           the last frame (null: none / lost)
 // Each frame's hand points (tip, ray) get the keyboard page's px: x, y
 // (CSS px of the keyboard popup) and onKeyboard (inside the page), if the
-// keyboard popup exists. Frames come every ~11 ms while a hand is near the
+// keyboard popup exists. Frames come at up to ~90 Hz while a hand's tip is
-// keyboard, its laser on it or its trigger pulled, else every 250 ms, and
+// within 10 cm of the keyboard or its trigger is pulled, else every 1 s, and
 // only while SteamVR shows the keyboard (then one with keyboard null).
 (() => {
   const VERSION = 1;

modules/vr-keyboard-controllers/relay.mjs

@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ async function connect(side) {
     if (m.method === 'Runtime.bindingCalled' && m.params.name === cfg.binding) forward(m.params.payload);
   };
   const closed = new Promise((res) => { ws.onclose = res; });
-  if (cfg.binding) { send('Runtime.enable'); send('Runtime.addBinding', { name: cfg.binding }); }
+  // No Runtime.enable: bindings work without it, and it would stream the
+  // page's console and context events here.
+  if (cfg.binding) send('Runtime.addBinding', { name: cfg.binding });
   live[side] = (expression) => send('Runtime.evaluate', { expression });
   console.log(`${side}: connected`);
   await closed;