How can I position the Cesium globe in front of the user in VR?

Cesium for Unreal
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Hi everyone,

I am working with Cesium for Unreal in Unreal Engine 5.7 using Meta Quest 3. I added Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and a Cesium DynamicPawn to my level.

In the editor preview, the DynamicPawn camera shows the whole Earth correctly in front of the camera. However, when I launch the project in VR, the globe appears too low / below the user’s view, so I have to look down instead of seeing it directly in front of me.

What I want is a setup where the user starts in VR with the Earth/globe positioned directly in front of them, like an interactive globe for selecting locations.

Any guidance on the correct workflow would be very helpful.

Thank you!

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Hi Nikola,

Welcome to the forum!

One way to do this is to nest your DynamicPawn in a globe anchor component and rotate pawn along the pitch 90 degrees. Then you can incorporate other controls to adjust angle etc.

We also have a guide here, Viewing the Globe – Cesium , however in this guide we don’t use the globe anchor components, instead run the functions in a custom component to achieve something similar.

I hope that helps,