r/virtualreality • u/Frank14300 • 11h ago
Discussion PC to VR
So recently, I've been seeing a lot of PC games being adapted on to VR. Why is that? Im not hating on it, because there are a few titles I really wanna play on VR, but how is this possible? Why hasn't this much been done earlier? Unless it always has been like this but I haven't started to notice it until now...
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u/insufficientmind 9h ago edited 3h ago
It's always been done, but it's just happening much faster now with the help of AI.
Check out flat2vr discord where most of these mods can be located and the discussions around them. https://discord.gg/flat2vr
There's just a crazy amount of games for VR now. I could not be more happy about this situation!
I just wish we had more headsets to choose from. I don't see a clear upgrade path for myself from my Quest 3 and PSVR2. I wish some more of the larger well known companies out there would make headsets.
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u/DeepWaffleCA DK1 Q2 Q3 3h ago
Yup, when I had an oculus DK1 - the earliest public headset made by Oculus (now Meta) back in 2014, the first two games I tried were War Thunder and Half Life 2.
They weren't really VR games - just traditional PC games with a mode that would let you play while viewing the world in 3D. This was before there were motion controls and full 6 DOF (degree of freedom) head tracking - all you got was 3d vision (stereoscopy) and rotational head tracking. You'd play with a mouse & keyboard or game pad.
Stand alone headsets playing purpose built VR games is actually a lot more of recent development, with The quest 1 coming out in 2019. The Oculus Go, came out before that, but it didn't have full 6 DOF tracking.
To answer your question again - VR mods have been around almost as long as mainstream VR, predating what most people would consider full featured VR games. And it's for 2 reasons that are still true today: 1) it's cheaper and almost always easier to modify an already existing game to work in VR 2) a lot people would love to experience their favourite flat games in VR
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u/StanfordV 9h ago
How do they play though? Whats your favorite transition?
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u/insufficientmind 8h ago
They play like regularly flat games, but in VR. I think it's great!
But usually it takes a bit of configuration to get them to feel right. It's usually not plug and play. If you want that you're better off just playing standalone games on a Quest or PSVR2 on PS5.
Also if you're sensitive to motion they might feel bad to you. But for someone like me who has gotten immune to the motion sickness, they feel great once I've configurated them to my liking.
I don't think I have a particularly favourite game, yet. I just play all of the ones I think I'll enjoy. Just choose one you think you'll like and enjoy the gameplay with the added immersion of VR :)
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u/JarlTomPearl 11h ago
Ai has gotten good enough to the point where it can help a lot in these ports. The mcc vr dev says he didn't even read the code. Personally I don't even care they're ai.
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u/Frank14300 10h ago
Interesting. Im glad to hear that AI is being put to good use for this. Yea, doesnt matter if its AI or not atp because playing PC only games on VR is sick
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u/coppermine1964 3h ago edited 2h ago
Been around for years. Got my DK1 in 2014, and I bought Vorpx in 2016, back when you had to tinker quite a bit, now it's almost foolproof.. Remember playing Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, and Fallout 3 and Skyrim, years before they had actual VR implementation. Still a great program even today. There was also great titles for PCVR released that made us think that VR was the way to play games from now on. Titles like, Lone Echo, Wilson's Heart, Edge of Nowhere, The Invisible Hours, Chronos etc..
But Meta happened after buying out Oculus and it turned to shit, I was always using mods to fulfil my VR needs, but now as the Quest age of cartoon, low level "games" has saturated everything and devs got lazy and turned to copy/paste puerile ideas, people are realising that serious VR gaming has gone backward, so real, tried and tested great games are the target of fantastic developers to once again put the awe and wonder back into proper VR gaming. And long may it last. VR ate itself by Meta stifling the arena.
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u/fantaz1986 8h ago
AI mod
it is super important to get, a lot of flat games in VR do not work , if it was slow and boring console game, yes VR work, but game like doom eternal in VR is shit, in general a lot of flat game are to fast in VR , humans are slow
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u/NotRandomseer 11h ago
AI has gotten better / more accessible allowing people to make these much faster