I’m a big old dreamer, me. I see a thing that I love, like VR, and I like to imagine the best outcomes for it. You know, like Sony actually bringing a new Astrobot to the PS VR2, or say, smaller, lighter, cheaper headsets for all. Obviously I’m disappointed every time – newer headsets seem to be getting impossibly expensive and, well, of course Sony’s gone done a Sony with the PS VR2.
One of my biggest dreams though, is that one day, in the future, every game released would come with a hybrid VR mode. A simple toggle at the start, like Capcom put in Resident Evil 7, that gives players the choice to either experience the game in VR, or enjoy it in flat screen on whatever TV or monitor they choose.
While this dream seems like a distant improbability, we do at least get to enjoy a taster of this fantasy thanks to Praydog’s magical UEVR mod, which lets you convert any UE4 or UE5 game into VR at the click of a button. Sure, not every game runs perfectly and there’s plenty of fiddling that can be done in the mod’s menus to iron out the creases but still, for this week’s VR Corner I was able to play a demo of a game that’s not even fully released yet in both third person and first person VR.
