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Setting up your development environment

Updated: Apr 14, 2026
The Building Your Experience on the Meta Horizon Store⁠ interactive course guides you through building and launching your first experience on the Meta Horizon Store. Learn how to leverage Meta’s tools, best practices, and community resources to plan effectively, build efficiently, and launch with confidence.
To develop apps in Unreal Engine for Meta Horizon OS, you need to install Unreal Engine, the Android SDK and NDK, and the Meta XR plugin. After completing steps 1–4 below, your development environment is ready to create projects for Meta VR devices. Step 5 configures a Meta Quest device for deployment. For Meta VR Glasses configuration and simulator testing, see Support Meta VR Glasses.
  1. Prerequisites for installing Unreal Engine
  2. Installing Unreal Engine
  3. Installing Android Studio and the Android NDK
  4. Installing the Meta XR plugin
  5. Configuring your headset for app development

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