Unity: Building VR User Interfaces

Discover how to work with Unity to create intuitive user interfaces for VR. Learn about the technological and psychological implications of common UX interface elements.

Introduction

• Understand and master the principles of great UI in VR using Unity
• What you should know
• How to use the exercise files

1. Getting Set Up with Oculus

• Download and install Unity
• Preparing Unity for Oculus
• Installing the Oculus SDK
• Set up the base scene
• Publishing to the Quest

2. Heads-Up Display

• VR UI overview
• Creating a simple canvas
• To the edge of vision
• Distance from the eye
• Occlusion strategy

3. Reticle and Interaction

• What is a reticle and why do you need it?
• Creating a simple reticle
• Reworking the HUD as a logging console
• Preparing the buttons
• Adding interaction to the console
• Customizing the reticle
• The usefulness of a ray pointer

4. UI for the Whole Body

• A true UI paradigm shift
• Setting up a palette
• Adding buttons to your palette
• Finishing up laying out the palette
• Adding visual fidelity functionality
• Sampling and antialiasing
• Haptic feedback

5. VR Dialogs

• Why worry about dialogs?
• Laying out the dialog
• Simple head tracking dialog setup
• Input masking
• Using an overlay to get attention
• Animating the overlay
• Adding animation to the dialog
• Reworking the dialog to fade in

6. 2D UI in a 3D World

• Getting around
• Adding a teleport marker
• A better occlusion strategy
• Updating the dialog animation with occlusion
• Mipmaps and filtering
• Putting a bow on it

Conclusion

• Next steps