Recently, the Modding team Known as SoMNst Released a 37 minute video showing the latest update to their “No VR” mod, an add-on to the critically acclaimed 2020 entry in the legendary “Half-Life”. The mod aims to make the game playable without the need for a VR headset.

Half Life Alyx Released on the 23rd of march, 2020, 13 years after the franchise’s last instalment “Half-Life 2, Episode 2”, which notoriously ended with the shocking death of beloved side character and father of player companion Alyx, Eli Vance. “Half Life: Alyx” itself was a spin off, set before mute theoretical theorist Gordon Freeman was re-inserted into the world by the extra dimensional G-man at the start of Half life 2. The story Follows Alyx Vance as she works to establish a Resistance against The Combine, an interdimensional alien race summoned to earth during the resonance cascade event of the original 1997 Half-Life.

The Half-Life series has always aimed to be on the cutting edge of games technology. The original game, released in 1997, was a huge leap forward for narrative in video games, and especially in the first person shooter genre, with subtle world building and environmental storytelling at the forefront of the experience. Its sequel, released originally in 2004, was a technological marvel, introducing real time physics simulation to the world of gaming, as well as some truly phenomenal facial animations that still help the game look Spectacular today, almost 2 decades later. Alyx continued this trend, being one of the most deep and content rich games for VR to date, with the game dumping the predecessors action tone and instead relying much more on horror to guide the experience.

However this reliance on VR technology has left many unable to experience the game due to the costs of owning such a device. This is where the no VR mod comes in. The mods goal is to remove the need for a VR headset and motion controls. Within the 37 minutes of in-development footage released on September 25th, Mod developers SoMNst show off some of their solutions to make the game work from a more traditional first person perspective. 

For example, very early on in the game you are given a number of pens and an eraser, and while in VR you are able to write on the windows of protagonist Alyx’s hideout. The mod works around this functionality by snapping the pen to the point on the screen where a gun would be held in a normal FPS and then snapping it to the window on a left click. The Demo Footage illustrates this by using these pens to carefully draw an image of the series Protagonist Gordon Freeman. 

In another instance, A door that would normally require the act of the player physically grabbing it with their VR controller to open, has been replaced with a hand icon that responds to a left click, similar to games like “Amnesia” and “SOMA”. For a more in-depth look, you can watch the entire 37 Minute Video below.

The mod is still in development. No final release date has been stated by any of the developers and the development builds are not currently available to the public. However the footage does look very promising and with any luck it will not be long until you are able to play the game with a mouse and keyboard yourself. Half-Life: Alyx is available right now from Steam.

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The remake of the Capcom classic hits Oculus Rift on October 21st

After the game’s announcement made by Capcom in April, the official release date of Resident Evil 4 VR has finally announced to come next month.

The game is reimagined as a first-person perspective (outside of cut-scenes), and also includes a new dual-wielding function. This lets Leon hold different weapons in each paw in line with the game’s dual-handed Touch controllers. There’s also support for teleportation and room-scale control options, however, the analog stick would be used for basic movement and navigation.

Oculus has stated that the game is still incredibly faithful to the original, and has been remade in Unreal Engine 4. The character animations and cutscenes will remain the same, and 4,500 textures have been modified so as to look better up-close.

Resident Evil VR is coming to the Oculus Quest on October 21st, and has an available pre-release signing-up experience here.

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Netflix, one of the leading providers of entertainment services, is venturing into the world of video games. A pioneer in home entertainment and looking to continue the trend. In July 2021, they announced that video games were on the agenda and will be added at no extra charge. Now announcing a VR experience for owners of an Oculus VR headset.

Soon you’ll be scrolling aimlessly for something to watch and come across the video game section just as if you were discovering a new under the radar series.

The VR title named Eden Unearthed is influenced by the Netflix series Eden. However, there’s not too much information on the title; however, a few snippets are out there.

The world of Eden Unearthed and the parallel animated series is set a millennium after humanity went extinct on Earth. Set in a thriving city, not with life, but robots known as Eden 3.

The aim of the game is to travel around on a Tron-like motorcycle through the world, collecting necessities such as fuel and food whilst keeping momentum to the maximum, or reaping the consequences. Sounds like a Grand Theft Auto mission from GTA: Vice City (IF you know, you know).

There is a release date set for April 21st. So not long before it will be available to the masses, most likely to be released first in the US. Netflix has been trialling a gaming service in Poland since earlier this year, starting with a couple of Stranger Things games, Stranger Things 3 and Stranger Thing:1984.

A plus for now is that micro-transactions won’t be a part of this method of gaming. However, this isn’t a permanent promise though.

Great news for subscribers to the service, although splashing out for an Oculus VR headset may set you back a bit more in one hit.

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The game of your dreams is here Star Trek fans. Star Trek: Bridge Crew is coming to VR later this year for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR. This game is so engaging and interactive, it is as though you were actually living the Star Trek experience.

You have the choice of playing as the captain, the engineer, the tactician or the helm. Make your choice!

Everyone get ready to immerse yourself in to this breath-taking game. Check out the game reveal and you’ll see why were so excited.

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg believes that the Oculus VR will change the way we communicate

As well as having a pretty huge presence at E3 this year, Oculus VR have very recently announced it’s controllers and retail iteration. Mark Zuckerberg, who is CEO of Oculus’ parent company Facebook, has stated that the headset is just the beginning of VR technology. He feels that virtual reality will grow to become a part of every day communication.

Zuckerberg took a question, in a Facebook Q & A, on how he feels the world will look like in 10 years time. In responding, he said that Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR came about initially because he is convinced that this technology will change the way we all communicate and compute.

“We’re working on VR because I think it’s the next major computing and communication platform after phones,” he said. “In the future we’ll probably still carry phones in our pockets, but I think we’ll also have glasses on our faces that can help us out throughout the day and give us the ability to share our experiences with those we love in completely immersive and new ways that aren’t possible today.”

In addition, Zuckerberg talked about his company’s research into artificial intelligence, and mentioned how Facebook is focusing on language and image interpretation to make personalized internet experiences more effective and, more importantly, possible.

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Advanced Micro Device’s new graphics card range promises the delivery of Extreme 4K Performance.

E3 2015 went one step closer to making VR a virtual mainstream reality in the coming months with some incredibly well thought out pieces of tech kit. With Facebook’s seemingly incredibly well timed $2 billion acquisition of Brendon Iribe’s start up in 2013 beginning to stretch it’s wings in preparation to take flight into what is fast turning out to be an endless supply of creative development. Many teething issues have also been ironed out with some extra help from the social media giant inclusive of the vomit inducing motion sickness felt in early prototypes. A need for instantaneous motion adjustment to match the speed of the human eye can only be bought another step closer in Rift’s latest partnership announcement at E3 & Twitter with chip stalwart AMD. Confidently claiming to be the “most advanced GPU ever, and the numbers are mind bogglingly epic.

The technology is being extoled to achieve 60 percent more memory bandwidth whilst supporting 4K gaming and a whopping 4GB’s of RAM, the highest eveVirr achieved on planet earth. It has also shrunk considerably making it more accessible and easier to manage when greeted by the ever-enthusiastic PC mod scene. The card’s inception aims to bring 4K gaming to those who can afford it driving 4K-like resolutions to 1080p screens at 60 frames per second. As well as full 5K support to high end consumers.

So what does this mean for the new consumer look Rift, which will replace it’s highly publicised predecessor the DK2? The benefits of such a powerful card are duplicitous, allowing developer’s on the platform to have access to the resources they require to create a genuinely immersive experience. Whilst also tuning up a consumers PC graphics to the point where it can give you a true definition of the creative vision of the studios involved in producing the game.

The varied uses of Oculus Rift’s genuinely unique power are only just starting to become apparent, buoyed by E3’s continued ability to inspire and excite the list is genuinely exciting. From allowing experts in fields such as nuclear power to train in a safe environment, to curing phobias, or perhaps even interactive theatre such as the Sundance institutes Perspective Chapter 1: The Party, which allows an immersive storyline following a young shy school girl at a college party, from two differing perspectives.

Personally being a long-standing lover of the sheer simplicity yet ultimate frustration of point and click games, such as Toshimitsu Takagi’s classic Crimson Room, which can be played here. I for one am well and truly on the jumping on the bandwagon, which also sounds like a fun VR idea.

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An exciting day for the virtual reality scene, as Oculus hosted its video briefing today, and with it unveiled the final version of the Oculus Rift consumer model, as well as a few trailers of upcoming games for the Oculus Rift.

Insomniac Games, the developer behind the brilliant Ratchet & Clank, showed of its teaser trailer of the upcoming Edge of Nowhere:

Playful showed a sneak peak of some game footage from the platform game Lucky’s Tale:

The role-playing Chronos was another trailer that was released during the conference, this time from the guys over in Gunfire Games studio:

Eve: Valkyrie was the final game to be shown off by the producers at CCP Games:

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REPORT

VR could be more about film than game, Oculus says…

“We’ve said from the beginning we’re big gamers, and we started Oculus to deliver consumer VR and revolutionize games,” Oculus VR’s vice president for product Nate Mitchell told the L.A. Times in an interview at CES 2015. “But it may well end up being that VR is more about film than games. We don’t know what the killer app is.”

The Oculus Rift first received it’s initial funding on Kickstarter, when it was pitched as “the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games,”. Although, the Oculus VR has said that the piece could end up serving films more than games.

In November 2014, Oculus said that the consumer model of the headset is “months, not years” away, and that it shall cost between $200 and $400. When you think about it, that’s an exceedingly good price for a model so ground breaking and we’re all very intrigued to try it out!

A few new companies managed to show off their own virtual reality devices at CES 2015 and some were better than others, but it appears that the Oculus Rift Crescent Bay device with all new 3D audio was the clear winner of the event, that gave the ultimate virtual reality experience. You can check out the best (and the worst) of the event HERE.

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