[Direct Lecture by Unreal Authorized Instructor] Developing VR Content with Unreal Engine 5 Without Coding

Following Apple and Meta, even Google and Samsung have jumped into the XR and immersive content market...

Should we just sit back and watch with our hands tied?

The solution to the rapid changes in the content market is a quick response.

This course covers everything from how to connect Meta Quest 3 to Unreal Engine 5.4 to files that must be set manually because plugins are not yet fully established, Meta's middleware and valid XR plugin settings within Unreal Engine, and the unique highlight of this lecture: the XR table tennis game development logic and packaging (app build) process.

As you take the course, you will examine the principles of how Unreal Engine's logic operates on Meta Quest and create your own projects by applying the logic you've learned. Through this process, you will explore the essential elements required for XR content creation, such as input/output in virtual reality that can only be understood through experience, UI design based on the characteristics of XR devices like Meta Quest, and hand-tracking input/output (I/O) settings for manipulating virtual spaces with bare hands.

At the end of each course, a challenge is presented to apply what you have learned. Through these challenges, you will gain hands-on experience by directly using the knowledge acquired in each lecture.

Lecture Content Preview.

Why sports games, and table tennis in particular, are the perfect way to study XR.

This is because it is the optimal learning material to most intuitively experience the essence of XR development—from interaction, physics, and input control to tunneling issue management.

Sports games, especially table tennis, are the most ideal subject for learning XR content development. Table tennis is not just a game of hitting a ball back and forth; it is an optimal learning topic for XR because it utilizes all the core elements of XR, including interaction, physics, and input/output device control.

1. Application of Physics Laws: Implement a highly immersive XR experience by applying real-world physics laws such as ball speed, gravity, restitution, friction, and collision.

   
   

2. Precise Input/Output (I/O) Data and Utilization: It requires a process of detecting subtle movements, such as hand tracking from motion controllers and racket speed, measuring them numerically, and reflecting them in the game. Since a table tennis game demands these conditions, the experience of meeting these requirements allows you to directly verify the operating mechanisms, possibilities, and limitations of XR devices.

3. Spatial Immersion: Since the game progresses through the interaction of the ball, racket, and player within a space, you will learn how to design natural user positioning and movement, as well as immersive experiences.

   
   

4. System Integration Skills: By designing a sports game, you can directly experience how various technical elements—such as game logic, physics, graphics, input tracking, and even AI table tennis bots—are combined within a single game.

   
   

5. Visible feedback and a sense of accomplishment: Users ultimately learn rules and find enjoyment in content through the action->reward pattern. The same applies to us as developers. By creating clear results—hitting the ball, bouncing it, and scoring points—you can gain a solid sense of achievement that "the XR content I made actually works" and experience the fun derived from systemic rewards.

Therefore, even if you are not interested in sports or table tennis, a table tennis game serves as the optimal XR learning material and is the best way to enjoyably master the core of XR content development.

From basics to practice to XR app building—the entire process of XR development in one single course!

Students will learn the following methods step-by-step, acquiring only the core technical knowledge related to XR development in a concise manner.

📚 Step-by-step Practice

Step 1: Mini-Game Creation
- Briefly learn about UI, interaction, and XR device considerations through a brick-throwing XR game.

Step 2: Creating a Sports Game (Table Tennis)
The main mission of this course!

- Logic development utilizing instantaneous wrist movement (angle)
- Logic development applying the racket's impact speed on the ping-pong ball
- Implementation of a ping-pong ball considering friction coefficient and mass
- Design of an opponent AI table tennis bot

By balancing the physical laws of the real world with the specific characteristics of Meta Quest 3 and Unreal Engine based on the points above, you will ultimately complete the XR table tennis game system.

🛠️ Practical XR App Implementation Experience

By assembling and applying the features they have learned, students will gain practical development experience in creating their own XR content, going beyond simple imitation.

🚀 Your very own XR app at the end of the course!

Unlike other VR courses that end with simply connecting and running an XR program developed on a PC to Meta Quest, this course is different!

→ In this course, you will even learn how to build (package) your project into a standalone XR app that runs directly on Meta Quest 3.

In theory, the built .apk file (XR app) can be submitted for review to the Meta Store, and once it passes the evaluation, the XR app will be released on the store. In other words, building and testing the developed content is essential for release. However, XR content developed with Unreal has very different environments and conditions compared to PC or mobile, so without prior knowledge or experience, it is very common for builds to fail with a flood of crashes and errors.

To help solve these problems, in this lecture, the instructor will reveal the optimal XR app build recipe, compiled by personally tackling critical errors one by one to find the answers! Just by learning this properly, you will feel that the course fee was well worth it.

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Features of this course

📌This is the latest existing XR content lecture taught directly by an Epic Games Unreal Authorized Instructor (UAI). We have followed up on all updated technologies, names, and functions that have changed in the meantime.

📌 Beyond the limitations of current online and offline lectures, which often end at simple object design, operation checks, or basic functional re-implementation, this course includes the production process of an XR sports game where you can design comprehensive game logic.

📌 Turn the game you created into an XR app that launches upon touch.

📌Learn hand-tracking I/O supported by Meta Quest 3, Vision Pro, AR glasses, and more.

📌 Immediately apply the theories learned through the lecture. You can internalize knowledge through challenges assigned to each lecture.

After completing the course

• You can create XR apps that operate independently on VR headsets (Meta Quest 3).

• You will be able to freely design and develop XR content using Unreal Engine and resolve issues such as bugs.

• You will be able to design content while considering the hardware resources of the Meta Quest rather than a PC.

• You will be able to experience and utilize methods to connect the real and virtual worlds through devices and software.

• You will be able to decompose, design, and implement Unreal Engine logic as naturally as breathing for XR (VR/AR) content creation.

A sneak peek inside the lecture.

This XR development course is a long-term project that has been under research and development for over two years, starting from when I received the Meta Quest 3 as the first batch in Korea through pre-order. While conducting offline lectures at educational institutions including Hongik University, Sejong University, and the Chamber of Commerce, I have refined this course by integrating cold, anonymous evaluations from actual students with no personal ties, as well as the knowledge, experience, and techniques of developers and experts in various fields.However, I realized that there are no online courses that properly and comprehensively teach XR content development, and because related technical materials and terminology change or update so frequently, the accessibility and reliability of technical knowledge are considerably low. Furthermore, while companies like Meta and Unreal Engine are releasing new products almost every day, existing courses cannot keep up with that pace, often leaving learners unable to acquire the necessary knowledge.Consequently, even experts faced the problem of having to spend significant time and money to carry out XR content production projects using the latest devices. I developed this online course to solve these pain points. Through this course, I aim to reduce the trial and error you would otherwise experience due to materials that are of unclear origin or no longer work because they are outdated, as well as save the time and cost you would spend searching for information, deciphering original languages and technical documents, and testing and verifying everything yourself. I hope you can use this course—which is difficult to find anywhere else, domestically or internationally—as a stepping stone to climb faster and higher.

The person who created this course

• 2025, Epic Games Unreal Authorized Instructor (UAI)

• 2025~, Ph.D. Student in Metaverse Technology Engineering, Sogang University

• 2023~, Operator of the Unreal Engine YouTube channel Beverly Hills

  
  

• 2022~, Soft Story Virtual Convergence Content (Game, VR, etc.) Developer

  
  

• Information Technology Development Teacher (Ministry of Employment and Labor)

Notes before taking the course