Start AR with unreal engine

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Hi,
I am a mechanical engineering student and I want to do some Augmented reality project for education purpose. ( I need some guide and help for starting).
about myself:
Since I had a back ground in c++ I chose Unreal Engine for my projects and I have some questions.
I haven’t had any experience with game engines and it’s my first time that I want to use Unreal engine so far I was just using terminal for c++ programming with books and etc.(No Gui)
My questions:

  1. First of all I can’t see enough tutorial on YouTube about AR in unreal engine, do you know some tutorials for absolute beginners.
  2. I checked some tutorial on YouTube and there was no coding. it was just using the unreal engine. do I need to much coding for AR application with unreal engine.
  3. I have seen some SDK such as Vuforia, AR core and etc. which one do you suggest?

I am a bit confused with the starting point.
Do I need first to have some tutorial about unreal engine itself or I need first to see and learn about SKD like Vuforia.
one more thing I wanted to add. My system (hard driver) has 50 gigabyte space. I saw some sites saying I need 100 gigibyte!!! do I really need 100 gigabyte for AR development .
Thank you in advance for your advice.

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Hi,

If you are new to both Unity/Unreal I think Unity is more beginner friendly because of the high amount of tutorials. For AR you could follow some HoloLens tutorials just to get an idea of how an AR app works. Also the C# language within Unity is quite easy to understand.

I’m completely new to C++ and many tutorials use blueprints (visual scripting), so I don’t really know how to help with that.

About the starting point. I would say to first understand how to work with Actors and maybe blueprints and make a little (very simpel) game. Then you would be able to understand most things within the few AR tutorials.

I’ve worked with Vuforia (within Unity) before and it worked amazing. Did you get some Vuforia features working within Unreal Engine? There is not much information about using the Vuforia SDK for Unreal Engine online.

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