Unreal Engine 5 AR Development Tutorial 01: Create And Setup AR Project

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Welcome to the first tutorial on AR development with unreal engine. In this tutorial, I am showing you how to set up a project for AR Development.

Step 1: Open Unreal Engine 5

• Open Epic Games Launcher
• Select Unreal Engine 5.x

Step 2: Create a new project

=> 1. Select “Games”

=> 2. Select “Blank” project

=> 3. Select:

• Blueprint
• Target Platform = mobile
• Quality preset = Scalable
• Starter Content = False
• Raytracing = False

=> 4. Set Project Location

=> 5. Set Project Name

=> 6. Click on the “Create” button.

Step 03: Setup Plugins

=> Go to Edit > Plugins

Android

=> Goto Augmented Reality section

=> Turn on the following plugins

• AR Utilities
• Google ARCore

=> Click on the “Restart Now” button to restart the editor.

IOS

Goto Augmented Reality section

=> Turn on the following plugins

• AR Utilities
• Apple ARKit

=> Click on the “Restart Now” button to restart the editor.

Step 04 Create a Map(Level)

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