Jun 8, 2023

Introducing the Virtual Keyboard

In order for VR to be a model platform for both immersive play and productive work, people need to be able to intuitively input text in a familiar, efficient way. Many developers have been building their own custom keyboards from scratch—which is time-consuming and can create inconsistent user experiences. That’s why we’re excited to announce Meta’s Virtual Keyboard , as part of Presence Platform, to make it easier to achieve high-quality and user-friendly inputs.

Virtual Keyboard: A Win-Win Scenario for You and Your Audience

We’ve specifically built our Virtual Keyboard to enable a consistent, familiar text entry experience for users and to provide an easy-to-implement platform capability for developers. Now you can free up precious development time to focus on delivering delightful and productive VR experiences by leveraging the tool instead of building from scratch.

Not only is it easy to integrate, but our Virtual Keyboard can also provide an intuitive solution for users in a variety of use cases, like login forms, search bars, messaging, and more.

Tap Into a More Immersive and Productive Experience

Our Virtual Keyboard addresses limitations of the existing Overlay Keyboard by providing two key upgrades:

It’s immersive. The Virtual Keyboard is rendered by the app and can be positioned and scaled to best fit within the context of developers’ apps.
It’s fast.The Virtual Keyboard supports new interaction modalities like two-hand direct touch typing and swipe typing that make typing in VR faster than ever.

This tool also lets people seamlessly interact with other 3D objects while they have the keyboard open, thanks to anchors that keep the keyboard in place.

Get Started Today

The Virtual Keyboard is available on Unity as part of the Integration SDK. To get started, check out our documentation.

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