They just shipped Unity 4.5 this week — so unless there are any more delays, the new UI system will ship in the next (and likely final) major patch before the release of 5.0.

Google’s Cloud division today announced a strategic alliance with Unity to simplify game development that also sees the big developer migrate over its infrastructure to Google.

The same kind of laser pointer used for object selection can also be used for UI interactions. This means that the built-in Unity UI system that developers are already used to can be used in VR.