VRChat 2022.3.1 - The UI 2.0 Update is now LIVE!

We’ve just released VRChat 2022.3.1, the UI 2.0 Update!

Hop into VRChat right now to try it out!

View the full blog post here. As always, the full patch notes are available in our docs.

UI 2.0 is Now Live!

The Main Menu has a new look! This update has been a long time coming, and we have a lot to tell you about it.

The new Main Menu isn’t just an aesthetic upgrade – it’s a functional one! The new Main Menu is more organized, offers more customization options, gives users more information, and allows us to add more features to VRChat in the future (things like customizable, skinnable menus for world creators! Localization! Quality of life improvements! Tons of stuff we haven’t even thought of yet!).

On top of that, core upcoming systems like groups and the creator economy couldn’t happen without it.

…and that’s all before we get into the new HUD!

There’s so much new here that we couldn’t possibly cover it all in this blog post. Instead, we’ll first run down our thinking behind the new Main Menu, and then we’ll go through some of the new features that you can expect to see when you hop into VRChat.

Upgrading the Main Menu

The old Main Menu was the product of necessity. To be blunt, for a long time VRChat was being built by a very small team. We didn’t have the time to put together the perfect UI – good enough was all we needed.

After all, crafting a beautiful UI that looks good (and performs well!) in both desktop and VR is a challenge. 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.

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. Likewise, you navigate them in similar ways.

We wanted to make sure that the menu was intuitive to VRChat users. This way – even without having used them before – you should easily be able to find the information or features you’re looking for.

Most of the tabs can also be customized. 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. There are a bunch of new Main Menu Wings, too. These can be customized just like Quick Menu wings, and should help you navigate VRChat a lot faster than before.

We’ve also baked in some other new ways to customize the Main Menu. One of these ways is the ability to change the image in the background. While all users will have the option to change between 3 different images, users with VRChat+ will be able to choose between 37!

As you can see in the gif below, all of these backgrounds are parallax – which should make them extra fun to play with in VR.

Exploring the Main Menu Tabs

The new Main Menu has been broken down into tabs, much like the Quick Menu. You can see these here at the bottom:

When you click them, you’ll be brought to individual sections, some of which are upgraded sections of the old Main Menu, and some that are brand