Community Tutorial: Unreal Engine 5.6.x for Meta Quest VR

XR Meta Quest setup guide covering everything Unreal Engine 5.6.x

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/2KR1/unreal-engine-5-6-x-for-meta-quest-vr

Thanks for tut. 2 moments:

According “Simulator“ - it’s VERY USEFUL feature. As a VR developer, i can say, that putting HMD on/off for testing is pain in the xxx, and very slow. So, “Simulator“ is necessary. Meta release 83 version as “Windows installer“, but as far as i tested it’s not as good as previous versions. Especialy for MP Development (second window don’t open). But the good news is - you can use simulator v81.

And Simulator v81 you should unpack to
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\MetaXR\MetaXRSimulator\81

UE 5.7.1 version has large XR improvements, so this version is preferable. We can wait for Meta releasing version for 5.7.1, or you can use my recompiled version for 5.7.1.

Just create VR-Template project and unzip it to folder Project/Plugins. (I’m not tested a lot, but it seems all working.).

So, i think community will be appreciated, if you add Simulator to guide and rewrite guide for 5.7.1.

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Added the Simulator to the guide with a note on how to change versions; keeping the community happy :slight_smile:

As for UE5.7.1, I’m aware of the great plugin from TrueFranco, but it’s unofficial. I’d love to see Meta keep up, though they seem to prefer staying a version behind when it coming to Unreal.

Hey, thanks for sharing step by step how to setup sdks for 5.6!
not sure if this is right place or not but did you try the Unreal Interaction_sdk_sample

GitHub - oculus-samples/Unreal-InteractionSDK-Sample: Sample projects to showcase the Meta XR Interaction SDK plugin.

I tried both version (zip file from github and cloning it from repo) but they didn’t work!
it asks me to build the source manually?!
’’MetaIsdkSample could not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manually’’

I also updated the msvc component version through the visual studio installer to 14.38 which was higher than my current verserion “14.36” but I fell into a loop which asks me to install the other one :expressionless: