How to interact with OculusHome-like UI

Hey Folks,

I'm really new to Unity, and I'm currently trying to create a menu similar to Oculus Home - a bunch of UI elements on a fixed world space plane, and I'd like to select an element by looking at and tapping on it. What's the best way to go about doing this? Just looking for someone to point me in the right direction, sample code would be super helpful too

Thanks,
Saswat

 

I've seen two ways of doing this. The first is you add colliders on UI GameObjects and do a raytrace from the center anchor of the camera in it's forward direction. If it intersects with a button you select it. Make a timer to "click it", or just use a key press.

The other method is by making a new inputmodule that uses the EventSystem more directly.
https://forums.oculus.com/viewtopic.php?t=16710

 

Hi,
There is a demo menu in Google Cardboard SDK.
You can reuse it - https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/developers/
It uses uGUI and is pretty simple.