Suddenly, the introductory train station became a vast, vaulted church to misery and implied threat, such that you had to crane your neck up to watch doctor Breen spout combine propaganda from his giant, rectangular display. What you got was this weirdly retrofuturist experience, as you explored a grainy, letterboxed version of City 17 that was nonetheless completely there, enveloping your vision like a headcrab. But there was Half-Life 2, for which Valve had implemented a hacky VR mode that you could activate with some console tomfoolery. Understandably given the name, there were not games for the developers kit outside of a few incredibly basic demos. Back in the primordial days of 2013, I was lucky enough to get my ungainly sausage-mitts on an Oculus Developer's Kit – the prototype headset that eventually led to the Oculus Rift. Half-Life 2 was the first game I ever played in VR. This week, Rick Lane goes back to the future in Half-Life 2: VR Mod. Reality Bites is a new monthly feature all about Virtual Reality.
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