Avatars Upgrade Guide (Retired)
Updated: Apr 14, 2026
End-of-Life Notice for Meta Avatars SDK
The Oculus Avatars SDK has been replaced with the
Meta Avatars SDK and is now in end-of-life stage. It is no longer packaged with Meta XR Core SDK releases v39 onwards and will not receive any further support. We strongly discourage its use.
This documentation is no longer being updated and is subject for removal.
Unreal
Upgrading from the previous version of avatars is easy. Simply update to Meta Unreal build 1.26, or later, and rebuild your project. Avatars is currently only supported in C++ projects.
What Happens If I Don’t Upgrade?
While we strongly encourage upgrading to newer versions of Meta Avatars, existing implementations will continue to work as they do now.
If you choose to not update your avatars integration, any user who has created an avatar using the old visual style will still have their preferred avatar returned. Users who had not created an avatar, or who had created an avatar using only the new visual style, will be represented using the old default avatar.