Virtual Keyboard Overview

Virtual Keyboard lets you easily render a best-in-class keyboard directly in your application, providing a consistent typing experience across Meta Quest VR applications. The API allows for features and improvements to be added to Virtual Keyboard through OS updates, without requiring developer updates to access the latest features.

The keyboard offers multiple input modes: far raycast-based input, direct poke input, and swipe typing for both modalities.

While, as a developer, you have full control over the position and scale of the keyboard, the API provides default sizes and positions fine-tuned for usability based on user research.

This guide provides:

Note: If you are just getting started with this Meta XR feature, we recommend that you use Building Blocks, a Unity extension for Meta XR SDKs, to quickly add features to your project.

Complete the Getting Started guide.