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Unity Virtual Reality Projects

You're reading from Unity Virtual Reality Projects Explore the world of virtual reality by building immersive and fun VR projects using Unity 3D

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783988556

Length 286 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Virtual Reality

Author (1):

Jonathan Linowes

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Virtually Everything for Everyone

2. Objects and Scale FREE CHAPTER

3. VR Build and Run

4. Gaze-based Control

5. World Space UI

6. First-person Character

7. Physics and the Environment

8. Walk-throughs and Rendering

9. Using All 360 Degrees

10. Social VR Metaverse

11. What's Next?

Index

Chapter 5. World Space UI

World Space UI

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Graphical user interface (GUI) or just UI, usually refers to on-screen two-dimensional graphics, which overlay the main gameplay and present information to the user with status messages, gauges, and input controls such as menus, buttons, sliders, and so on.

In Unity 5, UI elements always reside on a canvas. The Unity manual quotes the canvas component as the following:

The Canvas component represents the abstract space in which the UI is laid out and rendered. All UI elements must be children of a GameObject that has a Canvas component attached.

In conventional video games, UI objects are usually rendered in a screen space canvas as an overlay. Screen space UI is analogous to a piece of cardboard pasted on your TV or monitor, overlaying the game action behind it.

However, that doesn&apos...

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Authors (1)

Linowes

Linowes

Jonathan Linowes is a VR/AR enthusiast, Unity, and full stack developer, entrepreneur, certified Unity instructor, and the owner of Parkerhill XR Studio, an immersive media, applications, and game developer. Jonathan has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University, a master of science degree from the MIT Media Lab, and has held technical leadership positions at Autodesk and other companies. He has authored multiple books on VR and AR published by Packt Publishing.

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