You aren’t playing ‘as’ the character, you ‘are’ the character in a much more 1-to-1 manner of speaking. One of the biggest benefits of the world of VR is that it is inherently more immersive over the traditional screen-based video game experience. With this in mind, extra effort has to be put into considerations such as readability, accessibility and usability. The nature of this, though, means that it's a little more difficult to have a standardized UI in the same way as a screen based one. While pinning UI to the players vision is a possibility, it has potential for adding towards VR sickness and so more often than not, more elegant in-world solutions have to be found. We know a health bar will likely be near the upper left of a screen a map upper right a vehicle speedometer bottom right, but all of this goes out of the window when you consider that with VR there is no real ‘screen.’ There are keystones of visual design when it comes to things like a standard Heads-Up Display, almost to the degree of knowing what we are going to get from a game before we even see them. When designing UI with VR in consideration, it feels like a fundamental change of the rule set in a lot of ways.

How the Jurassic World Aftermath Collection was made Jurassic Park Aftermath Collection for PSVR 2 immerses players in the movie world (Image credit: Universal City Studios / Amblin Entertainment) When designing UI for a VR game, what do you need to consider?Īdam Birch (senior UI/ UX): UI development in VR is very interesting, as things change a little when some UI can’t be the embedded screen solutions most players are used to in non-VR games.

Below you can read the team's reflections on developing for VR, the importance of designing in-world UI and much more.

To find out, I asked the team at Coatsink, including head of art Bryn Morrison-Elliot, senior UI / UX designer Adam Birch, technical lead Max Charnock and design manager Mark Wilson how they made one of PlayStation VR2's best games. So how was Jurassic World Aftermath Collection made? What choices needed to be made to ensure a cartoon Velociraptor could make you jump? And how did the the team mix in action, puzzles and taught escapes while never breaking VR's biggest rule: immersion.

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