

Next, go to the Steam Workshop for Garry’s Mod, then find and subscribe to addons called VRMod - Experimental Virtual Reality and Half-Life 2 Campaign. To play Half-Life 2 in VR, you first need to install both Half-Life 2 and Garry’s Mod on your PC. Still, once you get in and get past the faff, it’s a pretty impressive VR experience. You should know that you can’t save or load your game in this version (you can respawn instead), and need to manually select which level you play. Instead, there’s a clever workaround that involves using the silliness sandbox Garry’s Mod alongside Half-Life 2. A fully fleshed-out VR mod has seemingly been in the works forever, so it’s best not to hold out hope for that. Playing Half-Life 2 in VR is a little more complicated.

More information on the mod's developments and the team behind it can be found through the Road to VR link.(Image credit: Valve) How to Play Half-Life 2 in VR Hit up the link to the Half-Life 2: VR Steam Greenlight page to give them the thumbs up. Once complete, the mod will be free of charge for those who own the normal desktop versions of Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode 1 & Half Life 2: Episode 2 on Steam. The original team behind HLVR along with new team members are working to rectify this with Half-Life 2: VR. Because of this, the original HLVR mod could only be played using the development kits. Support for Rift development kits was added to Valve's Source engine, but as the tech advanced, the Source implementation wasn't updated. Because Half-Life 2’s guns were never made for flipping over and looking at in such detail, all weapons have also been remodelled.Īccording to Road to VR, when the HLVR mod in 2013 with motion-controller input support using the Razer Hydra and Rift DK1. This means players will manually load their weapon by flicking out the barrel before putting in rounds. It will also feature realistic interactions with remodeled weapons.

Up right now on Steam Greenlight, the modding team for Half-Life 2: VR is remastering the visuals, HDR lighting, adding full motion input support, creating a made-for-VR UI, and more. Praise Modders! A group of folks have restored VR code for Half-Life 2 (HLVR) in order to make it playable on Oculus and HTC Vive.
