VR Hands and Animations in UE5 & | Tutorial Part 1 | Adding Hands and Gesture Animations

In this Unreal Engine 5 VR tutorial, I will be showing you the step-by-step instructions for adding your own custom hand assets to the VR pawn in the Open XR template. This tutorial will cover adding hands to the pre-existing VR pawn inside the Open XR template and creating a new animation blueprint to drive hand animations from player input. Assets Link - Tutorial Part 2 - Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:32 - Step 1: Download Tutorial Asset Files 0:54 - Step 2: Creating a VR Project in Unreal 5 1:42 - Step 3: Hand Assets Importing and Setup 3:35 - Step 4: Creating New Input mappings for Thumbs Up animation 4:48 - Step 5: Adding Hand Meshes to the VR Pawn 7:14 - Step 6: Creating the Primary Animation Blueprint and Animation Enumerators 9:05 - Step 7: Setting up the State Machine inside the animat