A fan-made Half-Life 2 VR mod nearly eight years in the making will finally be getting a public release next month in the form of an open beta.
Eurogamer first reported on the Source VR Mod Team’s Half-Life 2: VR mod in 2017, but that version was actually an extension of an earlier mod released for Razer Hydra back in 2013. Some time after the new version’s announcement, the project appeared to stall – it entered “its own kind of development hell and was all but abandoned”, according to the team’s website – but it re-emerged in 2021 and is slowly approaching the finish line.
Half-Life 2: VR – one of several attempts to bring Valve’s seminal shooter sequel to virtual reality headsets – promises a range of features, including room scale VR, the ability to manipulate items and weapons directly with your hands, full locomotion, a weapon selection menu inspired by Valve’s Half-Life: Alyx, and tweaked vehicle rides intended to help reduce motion sickness.
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