Chapter 4Building UI in VR

Building intuitive, well-designed user interfaces in VR requires hybrid expertise in visual design, user experience, and front-end software engineering. This chapter introduces you to this set of skills through design concepts and methodologies used by Google when designing user interfaces for VR. It then guides you through the practical steps of applying these methods to build engaging UI systems for VR games and apps.

Designing User Interfaces in VR

Designing great user interfaces (or UI) for VR is a deceptively challenging task. Unlike other digital mediums, such as mobile or desktop, where creative possibilities are constrained by screen sizes and flat surfaces, the potential permutations of interfaces in virtual ...

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