Traditional movement in vr using the vive controllers?

It's tricky @nmgh101 because the head look isn't the rotation of the Camera, forward is still forward for the Vive setup no matter where your head's looking and if you rotate the parent position to be the direction your head's facing then you'll just end in a flat spin.

I've setup a controller (right or left - whichever your preference is) with this script...

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 using Valve.VR;
 
 public class myTouchpad : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public GameObject player;
 
     SteamVR_Controller.Device device;
     SteamVR_TrackedObject controller;
 
     Vector2 touchpad;
 
     private float sensitivityX = 1.5F;
     private Vector3 playerPos;
 
     void Start()
     {
         controller = gameObject.GetComponent<SteamVR_TrackedObject>();
     }
 
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update()
     {
         device = SteamVR_Controller.Input((int)controller.index);
         //If finger is on touchpad
         if (device.GetTouch(SteamVR_Controller.ButtonMask.Touchpad))
         {
             //Read the touchpad values
             touchpad = device.GetAxis(EVRButtonId.k_EButton_SteamVR_Touchpad);
 
 
             // Handle movement via touchpad
             if (touchpad.y > 0.2f || touchpad.y < -0.2f) {
                 // Move Forward
                 player.transform.position -= player.transform.forward * Time.deltaTime * (touchpad.y * 5f);
 
                 // Adjust height to terrain height at player positin
                 playerPos = player.transform.position;
                 playerPos.y = Terrain.activeTerrain.SampleHeight (player.transform.position);
                 player.transform.position = playerPos;
             }
 
             // handle rotation via touchpad
             if (touchpad.x > 0.3f || touchpad.x < -0.3f) {
                 player.transform.Rotate (0, touchpad.x * sensitivityX, 0);
             }
 
             //Debug.Log ("Touchpad X = " + touchpad.x + " : Touchpad Y = " + touchpad.y);
         }
     }
 }

Have a parent to the camera, put a rigidbody with Y constrained on both Rotation and Position. Put that script on your controller and drag the camera Parent object onto the public player object.

It's a bit of a combination of a traditional controller WASD/mouse, forward backward and turn whilst your head can still look around.

Really I'd add an option to teleport as well as some people will feel ill with this approach. I guess I'm not one of them given how much time I spent spinning around on the floor trying to get the script to work! :)

Oh and if you get a steep slope it'll fall apart trying to set the height so lock off anything too steep.

You'll have to parent it to another object and move the parent object instead. The steamvr camerarig will only face the direction of it's original orientation.