# Bring AI-Powered 3D Avatars To Your Unreal Engine Virtual Reality Projects | Convai UE5 VR Tutorial

**URL:** https://forum.convai.com/t/bring-ai-powered-3d-avatars-to-your-unreal-engine-virtual-reality-projects-convai-ue5-vr-tutorial/6457
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**Created:** [August 6, 2026, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/bring-ai-powered-3d-avatars-to-your-unreal-engine-virtual-reality-projects-convai-ue5-vr-tutorial/6457 "2026-08-06T10:50:06Z")
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#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/bring-ai-powered-3d-avatars-to-your-unreal-engine-virtual-reality-projects-convai-ue5-vr-tutorial/6457/1 "2026-08-06T10:50:06Z")

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Hello everyone,

Virtual Reality is transforming hard-skills training, digital twin scenarios, onboarding, and immersive 3D experiences. Today, we are excited to release a step-by-step tutorial on how to bring **Convai-powered AI avatars into your Unreal Engine 5 VR projects**!

In this tutorial, we start with an Unreal Engine VR template project, integrate a Convai-powered MetaHuman, configure hands-free voice interaction, set up 3D spatial UI widgets, and test real-time Convai Actions directly inside a VR environment.

### ✨ What We Cover in This Tutorial

Whether you are building virtual guides, interactive learning applications, or immersive NPCs, this video guides you through the entire VR pipeline:

- 🥽 **3D Chat Widget Setup:** Add a Convai 3D widget component to your MetaHuman Blueprint and properly position the chat transcript UI for VR consumption.

- 🗣 **Hands-Free Conversation:** Disable push-to-talk in the player Blueprint so users can speak naturally with the AI avatar inside VR.

- 🎯 **Convai Actions in VR:** Enable Actions via the Convai Chatbot component so your AI character can follow the user, point to objects, trigger animations, and interact with the virtual world.

- 📦 **Scene Object Configuration:** Set up object references so the AI avatar understands and reacts to natural language commands involving environment objects.

- 🧪 **VR Action Testing:** Test hands-free conversation and spatial actions inside an active UE VR scene.

[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/uploads/convai/original/2X/9/9932b9a3ed946a165e005427c5f788fb2866dc54.jpeg "Bring AI-Powered 3D Avatars To Your Unreal Engine Virtual Reality Projects | Convai UE5 VR Tutorial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTrXkH1wfg)

### 🔗 Resources & Prerequisites

Check out the resources below to follow along with the tutorial or catch up on prerequisite concepts:

**Prerequisite Tutorials:**

- 📺 **AI MetaHuman Tutorial:** [Watch MetaHuman Setup](https://youtu.be/4fMCKkrfyaA)

- 📺 **Convai Actions Tutorial:** [Watch Actions Setup](https://youtu.be/lB5_KRWdg_w)

**Documentation & Blog:**

- 📄 **Unreal Engine Documentation:** [Convai UE Plugin Overview](https://docs.convai.com/api-docs/plugins-and-integrations/convai-unreal-engine-plugin)

- 📝 **Read the Full Blog:** [Set Up Hands-Free AI NPC Conversations in VR with Convai & UE5](https://convai.com/blog/how-to-set-up-hands-free-ai-npc-conversations-in-vr-with-convai-and-unreal-engine-5)

- 🌐 **Get Started:** Sign up at [Convai.com](https://convai.com) to start building AI avatars.

We look forward to seeing the immersive VR experiences you build! Drop your feedback, setup questions, or project showcases in the replies below.

Happy developing!