HoloLens – How create a 3D text always visible using HoloToolkit: Everything You Need to Know

Some time ago I wrote a post on how to create a 3D text and that is always visible for the user on an app for Hololens. For this example, I used a series of scripts from HolToolkit and a custom one to achieve movement and follow-up of the 3D text.

There is a prefab called "UITextPrefab" in the HoloToolkit. You can create a new prefab with your own text based on it. I think I can remember that I had to set a font before my text was visible, because it was not set on the HoloToolkit prefab.

HoloLens – How create a 3D text always visible using  HoloToolkit

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on your canvas, if you set Render Mode to "Screen Space Camera" (don't forget to drag the main camera in), you can display static gui elements. T$$anonymous$$s is good for text or image widgets that you want to always be visible. The problem with that is that you can't gaze at widgets. 2ff7e9595c