Building with Unreal Engine

Realize your creativity and build breathtaking worlds with Unreal Engine's cutting-edge tools and real-time collaboration features.

Essentials

Starting building interactive and immersive experiences for Meta Horizon OS with Unreal Engine

Get started with Unreal Engine

Use this page as a starting point to learn what you need to develop your first Horizon OS VR app using Unreal Engine.

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Set up your environment

Set up your development environment to create new VR games and apps using Unreal Engine and Horizon OS.

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Creating your first project using Unreal Engine

Create, configure, and launch your first Meta Horizon OS VR app and see it come to life on headset.

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Explore features

Explore and discover different Unreal features that can bring your creative vision to life

Interaction SDK

Access and handle user input in a Horizon OS app built in Unreal.

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Movement SDK

Use body tracking, face tracking, and eye tracking to bring a user’s physical movements into the metaverse.

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Voice SDK

Bring voice interactions to your app experiences.

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Audio SDK

Add spatial audio to make the user's experience even more immersive.

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Mixed Reality Utility Kit

Integrate mixed reality features in your spatially-aware app.

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Accelerate development with these tools

Use our developer tools to develop, test, and debug your apps easily

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Decrease your iteration time by launching the app you develop in Unreal directly from the Editor to your device.

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Meta XR Simulator

This tool makes it easy to simulate a VR or MR experience for hassle-free development and testing.

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Meta Quest Developer Hub

Streamline your MR development workflow with this desktop companion app, featuring device management, performance analysis, and more.

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Showcases

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Explore our wide range of features through fully functional sample apps.

Phanto

Phanto is an Unreal reference app, showcasing the latest Presence Platform features, highlighting scene mesh, Scene Model, and Scene API objects.

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Shared Spaces

Shared Spaces demonstrates how you can quickly get people together using our social platform APIs.

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Graphics Showcase

Graphics Showcase features a performant Vulkan subpass-based tone mapping solution.

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DEVELOPER TOOLS

Meta Quest Developer Hub

Streamline your MR development workflow with this desktop companion app, featuring device management, performance analysis, and more.

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