While we’d love to show you everything in this blog post, the best way for you to experience it is to go and try it!

When we say there’s a lot of stuff in the new Main Menu, we really mean it. We’re so excited to finally be able to get it infront of users. The Main Menu is a major part of VRChat – and redesigning it has been a huge task. We think you’ll be able to make it way more comfortable for you, regardless of if you’re in VR or on desktop. The new HUD is way more customizable than the old one. You can also choose to have a notification displayed on your screen when someone joins or leaves the instance you’re in. You can choose to have one displayed in the center of your screen when you receive an invite or friend request. For those of you who’ve wanted to disable just the microphone icon, you finally can!

Not only does the HUD look different, but you can now adjust the opacity of the whole thing, or the individual elements. These can be customized just like Quick Menu wings, and should help you navigate VRChat a lot faster than before. There are a bunch of new Main Menu Wings, too. It’s possible to minimize the left-side bar on some of them, which should let experienced users see more information while hiding descriptions or text boxes they don’t need. This way – even without having used them before – you should easily be able to find the information or features you’re looking for. We wanted to make sure that the menu was intuitive to VRChat users. Likewise, you navigate them in similar ways. You’ll notice the new Main Menu looks a lot like the Quick Menu – that’s intentional! We wanted to make sure that VRChat has a consistent design language, both for aesthetic reasons and practical ones. Over time, though, the team grew, and we were able to sketch out and build a UI that would be aesthetically pleasing, fast, and easy to use, yet customizable for power users. We didn’t have the time to put together the perfect UI – good enough was all we needed.Īfter all, crafting a beautiful UI that looks good (and performs well!) in both desktop and VR is a challenge.

To be blunt, for a long time VRChat was being built by a very small team. Our current Main Menu was the product of necessity.

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