Should Items spherecast

I'm trying to implement pickable items using a button.

I've implemented the check of "Player facing direction of item in certain angle". However, I wanted to implement the distance feature w$$anonymous$$ch would need one of these 2 solutions:

1. Player to RayCast to check if there is a pickable in the distance

2. The item to SphereCast to check if there is a player in the vicinity

I have issues with both solutions:

1. I'd like to keep all the logic of showing the GUI and handling the pick up in the PickUpScript that's why I don't like solution one.

2. Running SphereCast on all the pickable items seems heavy for me (maybe it isn't?)

What would the preferable solution be?