VRMenuDesigner: A toolkit for automatically generating and modifying VR menus

TL;DR

VRMenuDesigner is an open-source toolkit that simplifies the creation and modification of VR menus through object-oriented design, enabling flexible, extensible, and efficient UI development in virtual reality environments.

Contribution

It introduces a modular, object-oriented toolkit for automatic VR menu generation and modification, addressing the lack of easy-to-use development tools.

Findings

Developed a flexible, modular toolkit for VR menus

Demonstrated usability with built-in menus

Enhanced efficiency in VR UI development

Abstract

With the rapid development of Virtual Reality (VR) technology, the research of User Interface (UI), especially menus, in the VR environment has attracted more and more attention. However, it is very tedious for researchers to develop UI from scratch or modify existing functions and there are no easy-to-use tools for efficient development. This paper aims to present VRMenuDesigner, a flexible and modular toolkit for automatically generating/modifying VR menus. This toolkit is provided as open-source library and easy to extend to adapt to various requirements. The main contribution of this work is to organize the menus and functions with object-oriented thinking, which makes the system very understandable and extensible. VRMenuDesigner includes two key tools: Creator and Modifier for quickly generating and modifying elements. Moreover, we developed several built-in menus and discussed their usability. After a brief review and taxonomy of 3D menus, the architecture and implementation of the toolbox are introduced.