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Published inSep 2015
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Jonathan Linowes
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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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The windshield HUD

The term heads-up display, or HUD, originates from its use in aircraft, where a pilot is able to view information with the head positioned in such a way that they are looking forward rather down at their instrument panels. Owing to this usage, I'll refer it as windshield HUD. Like visor HUD, the information panel overlays the gameplay, but it isn't attached to your head. Instead, you can think of it as attached to your seat while in a cockpit or at the dentist.

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A visor HUD is like the UI canvas—it is attached to your head. A windshield HUD is like it's attached to your seat.

Let's create a simple windshield HUD by performing the following steps:

  1. From the Project panel, drag the DefaultCanvas prefab onto the MeMyselfEye object in the Hierarchy panel so that it becomes a child of MeMyselfEye.

  2. Rename it to HUDCanvas.

  3. With HUDCanvas selected, set the Rect Transform component's Pos X, Pos Y, Pos Z to (0, 0.4, 0.8).

  4. Now, we'll set the Text component. With Text under HUDCanvas...

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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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