{"id":673699,"date":"2026-04-04T17:48:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/long-in-the-works-half-life-2-vr-mod-gets-public-beta-next-month"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:48:39","slug":"long-in-the-works-half-life-2-vr-mod-gets-public-beta-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/long-in-the-works-half-life-2-vr-mod-gets-public-beta-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-in-the works Half-Life 2 VR mod gets public beta next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/long-in-the-works-half-life-2-vr-mod-gets-public-beta-next-month.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nA 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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEurogamer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/modders-set-out-to-make-half-life-2-playable-on-rift-and-vive\">first reported<\/a> on the Source VR Mod Team&#8217;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&#8217;s announcement, the project appeared to stall &#8211; it entered &#8220;its own kind of development hell and was all but abandoned&#8221;, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/halflife2vr.com\/about\/\">team&#8217;s website<\/a> &#8211; but it re-emerged in 2021 and is slowly approaching the finish line.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHalf-Life 2: VR &#8211; one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/now-fans-are-using-half-life-alyx-to-get-half-life-2-working-in-vr\">several attempts<\/a> to bring Valve&#8217;s seminal shooter sequel to virtual reality headsets &#8211; promises a <a href=\"https:\/\/halflife2vr.com\/features\/\">range of features<\/a>, including room scale VR, the ability to manipulate items and weapons directly with your hands, full locomotion, a weapon selection menu inspired by Valve&#8217;s Half-Life: Alyx, and tweaked vehicle rides intended to help reduce motion sickness.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/long-in-the-works-half-life-2-vr-mod-gets-public-beta-next-month\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/long-in-the-works-half-life-2-vr-mod-gets-public-beta-next-month\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;s announcement, the project appeared to stall &#8211; it entered &#8220;its own kind of development hell and was all but abandoned&#8221;, according to the team&#8217;s website &#8211; but it re-emerged in 2021 and is slowly approaching the finish line. Half-Life 2: VR &#8211; one of several attempts to bring Valve&#8217;s seminal shooter sequel to virtual reality headsets &#8211; promises&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/long-in-the-works-half-life-2-vr-mod-gets-public-beta-next-month\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":673700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[6765,7255,7551,59],"class_list":["post-673699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-fps-shooter","tag-half-life-2","tag-half-life-alyx","tag-pc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Long-in-the works Half-Life 2 VR mod gets public beta next month | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"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. 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