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Connect your headset to your PC

Connect your headset to your PC until you can see the output from SteamVR.

SteamVR setting

1. Put folder zy under Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR\drivers, then restart SteamVR

   

2. Open SteamVR and navigate to Settings>Controllers>Manage trackers

   

3. Set the Tracker Role to LEFT FOOT and close the tab. The circle here could be either green or red. Then restart SteamVR

   

4. Before you can use SteamVR with UE4, you must set up the SteamVR interaction area. To do this, right-click on the SteamVR window and select the Run Room Setup and follow the on-screen directions to set up the SteamVR interaction area

   

   Please refer to 1 - SteamVR Initial Setup step 6 of the SteamVR Unreal documentation page below if you encounter any errors in this section:

   Steam VR Quick Start | Unreal Engine 4.27 Documentation | Epic Developer Community

Create a new Unreal project

1. Open Epic Games Launcher

2. Navigate to Library and select Launch on the top right corner. If you’ve installed multiple Unreal versions, select 4.27 or 4.26 to create the project

   

3. Set the project category as Games, then select Blank template

   

4. Under Projects Settings, enter your Project name, choose a save location

5. Click Create Project, and the Unreal project should start loading

Enable SteamVR SDK

1. Navigate to Edit>Plugins, and search for SteamVR in the search bar. Tick the Enabled box, then restart the project

   

2. Navigate to Edit>Project Settings, and scroll down to SteamVR. Select Regenerate Controller Bindings, then you should see a folder named SteamVRBindings under Config in your project folder.

   

   

   If the folder does not appear, try the following alternatives:

   1) play the level in VR mode

   

   2) call the Enable HMD node in the level blueprint then play the level in VR mode

   

   3) search for VR under Edit>Project Settings, and tick the Start in VR box, then play the level in VR mode

   

What’s next:

Tracker Configuration

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