Getting Started with VR (Guide)

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Hey guys!

Just posted my Getting Started with VR Guide for Unreal Engine 4!

It’s covering a variety of topics including Blueprint, C++ and performance best practices. And of course a collection or useful links to check out by Epic, Oculus etc!

Have a read, and let me know what you think!

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Hi Tom, thanks for this and all your helpful posts in the past!

I have the Oculus DK2 and razor hydra motion controllers. Ive been wondering if i can use these as kind of a poor man’s devkit for vive or cv1+touch type experiences with UE4 and how practical that might be in terms of getting it working. Any advice there?

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I’ll give it a read through :slight_smile:

I wouldn’t recommend Mitch’s template. It hasn’t been updated since 4.4. He is currently forgoing updating the template and is instead creating a series of video tutorials.

It’s 90hz for both. 75hz is for the DK2, CV1 will be 90.

I really enjoyed the performance tools read. Not enough people touch on this, and it is a pretty “big deal”.

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Hey Savior!

Thanks for pointing out the Mitch’s template is 4.4 a lot has changed since then so I’ll remove his link. I’ll add CV1 to the 90 hz list too.

@tmek: I don’t have a Hydra controller to test this. I found an unofficial Hydra plugin: Razer Hydra Plugin - Engine Source & GitHub - Unreal Engine Forums and that looks to be using the same motioncontroller classes as the Vive.

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Mmm, also found this link today when I was searching for some optimization stuff in UE4: http://fatedblog.com/2015/05/28/fated-and-the-quest-for-optimized-vr/

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Thanks! Added it to the guide, it has some valuable extra info.

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Thanks, Tom. You’ve answered a major question I had about getting motion controls to work properly in character bp with a non-0,0,0 starting location. I’m going to make the changes tonight and give it a try. Assuming that works, I can finish setting up the IK hand bones to move with the controllers.

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Hi Tom, nice guide.

not really fatal error, but you mixed up the “VR Best Practises” links, first is Epic and second Oculus

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Thanks for pointing that out, fixed it!

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Great resource Tom! Nice and clear.

I used my hydras for prototyping during a Vive Jam where the kits were limited. The unofficial plugin uses the same hw agnostic Motion Controller setup, just might have to add a simple calibration step. See the hydra thread for details.