Open Beta

Having the input field and keyboard as separate things is an interesting choice. I think it would be way better if the input field would be attached on top of the keyboard. Why? Right now when using the chat box for example, you get this huge bar in front of you that is the input field. Which you can't move. And you need to find a comfortable spot for the keyboard above or under it. Or you can move in space to get out of the input fields face a bit. It's needed since you need to have enough clearance for you to be able to hit the keyboard with your laser. So, please connect them into one thing. You probably use both at the same time.

For me personally i prefer the old location and a bit bigger microphone. I have a ultrawide so it being in the corner instead of the middle kinda is annoying.

Having multiple pages on the keyboard is a downgrade. It makes using the chatbox take longer since I have to keep swapping between the two pages to use numbers and common punctuation like an apostrophe. The old layout works better in my opinion.

The new microphone Icon for the Desktop UI overhaul is REALLY hard to see when you are actually talking. I believe the values are the same from the original UI however due to the top right position it is now a lot less obvious when your microphone is picking up audio. I don't want to claim a fix but an Idea I had was for the mic itself to go green or something like that to make it obvious when you are speaking. It just needs to be much clearer, as my first reaction when seeing the UI was not knowing if my Mic was on or not.

People in the Discord seem to be calling for a way to revert to the old UI. I understand why that isn't a super great option for the codebase or customization, so I suggest adding a few more customization features, that can also benefit other cases. Rescale UI Elements I'm not sure how VRChat handles very high/low DPI displays, but if it's not ideal, this will fix both with a manual UI Scale override, like many other games have Toggle Individual Elements Don't see yourself ever using the menu button? Are you a power user and find it patronizing to have all this stuff spelling out the keybinds to you? Do you have an OLED monitor, and worry about burnin? You should be able to toggle off the elements you don't need. Reposition Individual Elements Don't like having to look all the way to the top of your screen to see if you're muted? Move the HUD to the bottom left, the middle, wherever your heart desires. Don't like the new HUD at all? This doesn't need a new setting, you can use the last 3 to hide the new elements, and put the mic icon back where it was.

It is extremely unintuitive to hold down tab and while holding it, drag your cursor over to the hamburger menu. I suspect that a lot of people will find this cumbersome versus pressing the escape key on your keyboard to summon a menu. The alternative to this would be at the very least to show the microphone and invite/notification icons with the new desktop HUD disabled. Disabling the HUD is the only way to get rid of the hamburger menu. One can argue that a microphone icon is a HUD element. But, so is face mirror and that is de-coupled from the new HUD layout. The current alternative without this implemented is going to be avatars using up more material slots, unique shaders, and animator layers to put your mute icon and other elements actually where you want them on the screen without the HUD enabled.

Please add a setting that lets users switch back to the old HUD, so you can enable it in Settings and get the previous HUD back.

Allow players to have the ability to further customize the HUD. This HUD is WIP of course but it be nice if we were to be allowed to reposition and resize the HUD elements in the screen. An unofficial HUD made by ikeiwa (IKEHud) does this.

The HUD is just straight up dookie cheek buns. Did someone with a phone-app credential background made this? Scrap it all, most importantly no icon should be persistent on my screen and be intrusive like that, the F4 button is the worst choice to have a facecam render as if I ALT + F4 then it pops up and shows up for the next session...? Who thought this was acceptable? Not to mention mic now being permanent in the corner of your screen same as the 3 menu lines in the top left is a big eyesore even when it's on minimal HUD, the only option beyond that IS TO DISABLE HUD ENTIRELY which makes it impossible to see invites, notifications, or even know if youre talking. Include the fact that all interact menus are 5x larger and take up more space on your screen (wtf happened to the keyboard thing? why is it now just the input screen at like 20x scale and no "keyboard" anymore?). Here's what players want: +Original HUD System; Leave it alone, dont touch it, EVER. It's worked flawlessly since the literal beginning of the game beyond the minor tweaks when you changed menu's and the UI for the 1st/2nd time. The current non-beta HUD is the baseline that every iteration should strive to be as similar to as possible. +New Modern HUD System: Fully Customizable in placement and amount of buttons/what buttons are present. This isn't a case of "oh players are just reacting because they dont like change", someone deliberately made an extremely horrible user experience that annoyed me and from what I clearly see a lot of others to post about this, and thought that it would be a great addition. Revert it immediately.

The keyboard is now split from text fields and so when repositioned the text field no longer follows it, an option to keep the two connected when moved would be appreciated.