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Unreal Engine 4 Virtual Reality Projects

You're reading from   Unreal Engine 4 Virtual Reality Projects Build immersive, real-world VR applications using UE4, C++, and Unreal Blueprints

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789132878
Length 632 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Thinking in VR 2. Setting Up Your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Hello World - Your First VR Project 4. Getting Around the Virtual World 5. Interacting with the Virtual World - Part I 6. Interacting with the Virtual World - Part II 7. Creating User Interfaces in VR 8. Building the World and Optimizing for VR 9. Displaying Media in VR 10. Creating a Multiplayer Experience in VR 11. Taking VR Further - Extending Unreal Engine 12. Where to Go from Here 1. Useful Mind Hacks 2. Research and Further Reading 3. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Creating a project to house our plugin


Let's begin by creating a new blank project:

  1. Create a new Blueprint project using the Blank template, and set its hardware target to Mobile / Tablet, and its graphics target to Scalable 3D or 2D, No starter content.

Installing the VRExpansion plugin

Once we've created our project, we're going to add the VRExpansion plugin to it.

The first thing we need to do before we can install any plugin to our project is create a place to put it. Plugins must live in a directory named Plugins in your project directory or in the Engine directory:

  1. Open the directory containing your new project file. You should see your .uproject file here, along with your Config and Content directories.
  2. Create a new directory here named Plugins:

Now that we've created a Plugins directory for our project, let's add the VRExpansion plugin to it. There are a few ways we can do this.

 

Installing using precompiled binaries

The easiest way to get the plugin is to navigate to its forum discussion...

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