Creating a GUI for Rift Games?

Hey:

I have been trying to avoid regular a UI overlay as for me this breaks immersion substantially. Instead, I have been trying to add the UI to physical objects in my game.

For example... A part of my game you get offered a mission and you can accept or reject it. I used to have a standard modal overlay that described the mission and had options to accept or reject. Now I have changed it, the description appears on a TV screen in the cockpit and is also vocally spoken. The user just has to nod their head up/down to accept or shake left/right to reject.

Even things like a fuel readout instead of being an overlay in a corner, is now in the cockpit as a gauge that the user can glance down at.

Does this help?


John

I would check out the GUI system in the Hydra version of Tuscany. Pretty awesome. Sort of like SAO.

For my Unity tests with Rift and Hydra, I use a wrist-GUI.
You can see it at the beginning of my "Drums" video:
Video: http://vimeo.com/66023452
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And for additional output I prefer Text2Speech instead of infos on a GUI.

I'm testing also a 3D-inventory. But I'm not that happy with it. A good inventory is my main problem right now.

It looks like the Tuscany demo's "OVRGUI" class is exactly what I want to use. Thank you very much for directing me to that.

digital, you raise a good point that regular UI images can take away from immersion. I was thinking about that, too. I may try representing the player's health bar on the character model, itself (it's a robot).

conz, that drum demo looks great! It will definitely be one of the first things I try when my Rift arrives. And I wasn't familiar with the wrist-GUI before watching your video. If I could fit that in my game, I definitely would!

Thanks for the replies!

Hi,

What i currently do is using ongui() on the character control of the oculus prefab. Then i use 2 item for my gui.
And create 2 huds ( left and right eye):

1- i draw a rectangle and place my var there.
2- i create a guitexture and place this using the guitexture function.

Now i simple do some base aligment for the 2 gui objects for my left eye and right eye.
Then i create some public var. These wil set the global position of the full hud, so for the left
And right eye. Now i can alter it real time to find the best position. The last var i use
Is the offset between the left and right hud. This will determine the 3d effect. Again i can
Now adjust the 3d offset realtime untill it looks good.

After i got all var, i do fill them in my c# class, making the vars the default setting.

Anyway goodluck, creating you gui :)

Cheers