The software is given “as is”, with no warranty of its 100% stability on latest unity version I won't provide support of any kind.

Unity-Examine-System

A simple First Person Item Examine system for unity

here's how it looks (it's more smooth than the GIF make it looks):

It has a few customizable fields that I found useful, here's how the script inspector looks:

Controls:

Left mouse to pick up and examine an object with the right tag. Right mouse to exit examine mode and put back the object.

Note:

You need to give the object that you want to be examinable a tag and specify it in the script inspector.

You need a FPS controller (which is not provided) and specify it in the code (see comments)

You need an "Inspect Area" object which has to be a child of your camera, here's my structure:

The crosshair part it's just a canvas with the image of a white circle to mark the center of the screen, it's not needed but it's useful to "aim" the object.