Unreal Engine 5 AR Development Tutorial 03: Create First AR App

Ocean Games
2 min readOct 20, 2022

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In this tutorial, we are learning how to add AR functionality to the project and create our first AR app in unreal engine 5.

Step 01: Create and setup UE5(Unreal Engine 5) AR project: Tutorial 01

Step 02: Create AR functionality

=> right click on the content browser

=> Select Miscellaneous > Data Asset

=> Select ARSessionConfig

=> Name it(AR_DefaultSessionConfig) and save it.

Step 03: Start AR Session

=> open Pawn class

=> Go to the Event Graph section

=> Go to Event Begin play and right-click and search for the start ar session node(Create it).

=> Set Newly create ARSessionConfig(AR_DefaultSessionConfig) in session config option.

=> Connect it with Begin Play node.

Step 04: Test the app Tutorial 02

Congratulations you have successfully created your first AR App using Unreal Engine 5,

When you test this app on your device it will show the camera feed in the app.

In the Next tutorial, we are going to learn how to show debug geometry in our AR App

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