Unity: Building VR User Interfaces

3h 8mIntermediate2020-11-16

Authors

Roger Miller

Owner and Principal Engineer at Collective Mass

Course details

The explosion of growth and innovation in the virtual reality (VR) industry has led some to describe it as the next level in computing. In this course, discover how to create meaningful interactions for users of VR content. Join instructor Roger Miller as he shows how to use Unity to create intuitive user interfaces for VR on the Oculus Quest. Learn about critical visualization tools and concepts for VR. Explore the technological and psychological implications of common UX interface elements like heads-up displays, reticles, and dialogs. Learn about considerations like viewing distance and creating UI for the whole body. Plus, discover how to set up mipmaps, implement basic teleportation to navigate your 3D world, and much more.

Skills covered

Real-TimeGame DevelopmentUnityVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingSoftware DevelopmentDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

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

1. Getting Set Up with Oculus

04 - Download and install Unity
05 - Preparing Unity for Oculus
06 - Installing the Oculus SDK
07 - Set up the base scene
08 - Publishing to the Quest

2. Heads-Up Display

09 - VR UI overview
10 - Creating a simple canvas
11 - To the edge of vision
12 - Distance from the eye
13 - Occlusion strategy

3. Reticle and Interaction

14 - What is a reticle and why do you need it
15 - Creating a simple reticle
16 - Reworking the HUD as a logging console
17 - Preparing the buttons
18 - Adding interaction to the console
19 - Customizing the reticle
20 - The usefulness of a ray pointer

4. UI for the Whole Body

21 - A true UI paradigm shift
22 - Setting up a palette
23 - Adding buttons to your palette
24 - Finishing up laying out the palette
25 - Adding visual fidelity functionality
26 - Sampling and antialiasing
27 - Haptic feedback

5. VR Dialogs

28 - Why worry about dialogs
29 - Laying out the dialog
30 - Simple head tracking dialog setup
31 - Input masking
32 - Using an overlay to get attention
33 - Animating the overlay
34 - Adding animation to the dialog
35 - Reworking the dialog to fade in

6. 2D UI in a 3D World

36 - Getting around
37 - Adding a teleport marker
38 - A better occlusion strategy
39 - Updating the dialog animation with occlusion
40 - Mipmaps and filtering
41 - Putting a bow on it

Conclusion

42 - Next steps