You're reading from Mastering UI Development with Unity Develop engaging and immersive user interfaces with Unity

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235394

Length 638 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Unity

Concepts

UI Development

Author (1):

Dr. Ashley Godbold

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Designing User Interfaces

2. Chapter 1: Designing User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Designing Mobile User Interfaces

4. Chapter 3: Designing VR, MR, and AR UI

5. Chapter 4: Universal Design and Accessibility for UI

6. Chapter 5: User Interface and Input Systems in Unity

7. Part 2: Unity UI Basics

8. Chapter 6: Canvases, Panels, and Basic Layouts

9. Chapter 7: Exploring Automatic Layouts

10. Chapter 8: The Event System and Programming for UI

11. Part 3: The Interactable Unity UI Components

12. Chapter 9: The UI Button Component

13. Chapter 10: UI Text and TextMeshPro

14. Chapter 11: UI Images and Effects

15. Chapter 12: Using Masks, Scrollbars, and Scroll Views

16. Chapter 13: Other Interactable UI Components

17. Part 4: Unity UI Advanced Topics

18. Chapter 14: Animating UI Elements

19. Chapter 15: Particles in the UI

20. Chapter 16: Utilizing World Space UI

21. Chapter 17: Optimizing Unity UI

22. Part 5: Other UI and Input Systems

23. Chapter 18: Getting Started with UI Toolkit

24. Chapter 19: Working with IMGUI

25. Chapter 20: The New Input System

26. Index

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What are XR, VR, MR, and AR?

Before we can begin discussing best practices for VR, MR, and AR, we should clarify the definition of XR, VR, MR, and AR.

You may notice, if you look ahead on this chapter, that there are no sections titled Designing UI for XR. That is because XR encompasses VR, MR, and AR! It is an umbrella term. In fact, a more concise title for this chapter could have been Designing XR UI! XR includes VR, MR, and AR technologies:

Figure 3.1: Representation of XR technologies

VR experiences are perhaps the easiest to describe. They exist fully in the virtual world. The entire physical world is blocked from view, and the only thing you can see is the virtual space. This type of space can often be so immersive that the brain struggles to distinguish it from reality. Devices that facilitate VR fit over the user’s eyes to completely block out visuals in the real world. Popular devices today that support VR are the Meta (formally Oculus...