Is this possible?
Since my understanding of aframe and how entity-component system works is severely lacking, i simply tried to call one of the hand methods in the hand-controls component.
// I want to see a grip event
handControllerDOMElementReference.components['hand-controls'].onGripDown()
This achieved nothing. When tracing everything that happens in the 'hand-controls' component it looks like the gestures and animations are all called. But nothing happens, so i'm assuming i'm doing this completely the wrong way.
What is the right approach?
Currently, hand-controls responds to events that some component like oculus-touch-controls or vive-controls emit, see https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/blob/master/src/components/hand-controls.js#L57
It is certainly possible to have other components provide those events, such as https://github.com/chenzlabs/gearvr-controls or ryanbetts aframe-daydream-controller-component
Perhaps you can either manually generate those events, or better yet create a component that generates them when applied?