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Unity Virtual Reality Projects

You're reading from   Unity Virtual Reality Projects Learn Virtual Reality by developing more than 10 engaging projects with Unity 2018

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478809
Length 492 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Virtually Everything for Everyone FREE CHAPTER 2. Content, Objects, and Scale 3. VR Build and Run 4. Gaze-Based Control 5. Handy Interactables 6. World Space UI 7. Locomotion and Comfort 8. Playing with Physics and Fire 9. Exploring Interactive Spaces 10. Using All 360 Degrees 11. Animation and VR Storytelling 12. Social VR Metaverse 13. Optimizing for Performance and Comfort 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Info bubble

In a comic book, when a character says something, it's shown in a speech bubble. In many online social VR worlds, participants are represented by avatars and, hovering above someone's avatar, their name is displayed. I'll call this type of user interface an info bubble.

Info bubbles are located in world space at a specific 3D position, but the canvas should always be facing the camera. We can ensure this with a script.

In this example, we'll display the X, Z location of the WalkTarget object (set up in Chapter 4, Gaze-Based Control), controlled by the LookMoveTo.cs script. To add the info bubble, perform the following steps:

  1. From the Project window, drag the DefaultCanvas prefab directly into the Hierarchy window so that it's a child of WalkTarget.
  2. Rename it to InfoBubble.
  3. With InfoBubble selected, set the Rect Transform component's Pos...
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