Gordon Goes Virtual
Oculus have just announced via their Developer forums, that they’ve ‘shipped’ support for Half Life 2 in beta form at least. The update can be obtained via Steam, and you need to follow the below instructions in order to activate the new VR support:
To get it, open the properties for HL2 in Steam, set your command line to “-vr”, and opt-in to the SteamPipe beta. This should ship to everybody in a few weeks.
This is an early beta for VR support, as such the list of known issues are as follows:
The zoom UI shows up in a quad in the middle of the screen instead of on the edges of the screen.
The HUD is dim and hard to read.
It’s exciting to see official support for AAA titles (albeit older ones) starting to appear, certainly having an excuse to re-play this particlar classic, this time in VR is most welcome to this gamer.
Here’s some footage of the official implementation in action, thanks to YouTube user Tejnop: