Next, right-click on the Half-Life 2 entry in your Steam library and select ‘Properties’.
Set a shortcut link on your desktop (or anywhere else you wish) so that you can run Half-Life 2 without booting Steam. A fresh install is recommended, though you will be able to import any existing save data if you so wish. Once that process has been completed simply follow the instructions below!īegin by installing Half-Life 2 direct from Steam.
However, Half-Life 2 utilises the same player profile system as Team Fortress 2, and so VRFocus recommends that you follow the process outlined in the Mod of the Week: Team Fortress 2 article before beginning with Half-Life 2. Despite the age of Half-Life 2 it still plays fantastically and acts as a wonderful showcase of what this new age of Virtual Reality can achieve.ĭue to the fact that Half-Life 2 has been retroactively updated by Valve themselves, preparing the videogame for use with Oculus Rift is a very simple process. Much like Valve’s Team Fortress 2, the critically acclaimed Half-Life 2 has received an official update from the in-house development team to make the videogame compatible with Oculus Rift.
