IN GAME: How do you create an interactive screen with buttons?

I'm looking to create a virtual control panel that has a screen and navigating buttons to control a virtual loading dock. I am not quite sure where to start. I think I might use the leap motion SDK to create the buttons, but I don't know how to link those buttons with an in-game UI screen.

Any suggestions or ideas?

 

Normally any in-game UI is done with a Canvas; in VR, you use a World-Space Canvas. If that sounds like Greek to you, I recommend spending some time working through the Unity tutorials.

 

I have worked with Canvases before but I am just not sure on how to map in game interactive buttons with a UI canvas. I am also thinking of using a render texture as the screen to the control panel.

 

Maybe you can add colliders to the ui elements, and note when the vr controller colliders enter and leave? Haven't tried this myself, but maybe its worth a shot.