I was part of an investigation which considered Coherent products for one of the Forza titles. We didn't go with it at the time, and I haven't had the opportunity to use it on a title at other companies, but it looks rad.
Forza used a custom UI system based on XAML and the acrylic elements at the top of the article were largely implemented in a custom shader. For a custom system it was pretty solid. We also built a lot of tech into it related to 3D placement of elements to support diagetic UI.
Little tip, you might want to add a -webkit-user-select: none on the container elements so it prevents highlighting in Safari when dragging the cursor out and back over.
Thanks for the tip! I had `user-select: none` on the container which had the glass inside of it but apparently that didn't work. I just updated the page with `user-select: none` on the glass itself and it looks like that did the job.
https://coherent-labs.com/products/coherent-gameface/
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