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When I covered the industry in the early days of The Verge, I got used to trying new demos late at night so I wouldn’t have to suffer long if things went south. But I’ve also had plenty of bad experiences in titles without the extensive guardrails those made-for-VR games offer. I don’t always get sick in VR! I’ve played Resident Evil 4 VR, Space Pirate Trainer, Firewall: Zero Hour, and Half-Life: Alyx for hours on end. The spirit is willing but the VR legs are weak I break out in a sweat, a clear signal it’s past time to quit.

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When I teleport to a dungeon and try a few simple fights, I find the game simply doesn’t run fast enough to maintain smooth frame rate in VR, even on my moderately capable gaming PC with a 3060 Ti. The first twinge of sickness begins when I try to turn my shining armored knight around with my gamepad’s joystick controls. As soon as I move my character, the scenery shakes slightly. And I find myself with a newfound passion to explore it. Suddenly, I understand why I keep finding dead lords perched in thrones across the game’s cliffs and shores staring up at the golden Erdtree for eternity. Every direction I turn, it’s all around me in its shimmering, ethereal glory. I’m exactly where I left off in the game, only now I’m there. Suddenly, I’m inside Elden Ring, looking up at the game’s incredible underground kingdom filled with its impossible sky of stars. It handles most everything else, automatically detecting my Quest 2 headset (even though I’m streaming via Virtual Desktop wirelessly from my PC) and setting refresh rates and resolution appropriately.

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It’s remarkably simple to install - drop a compressed folder of files into my game directory, run the script, then launch it from Steam like usual. One evening, I fire up Elden Ring with the Luke Ross mod. If a single man can make Grand Theft Auto V or Elden Ring playable in VR, doesn’t that mean these companies are leaving money on the table? “It’s an incomplete experience,” he says, “but it’s enough to make a lot of gamers understand that this should be the future of gaming.” He believes his popular Patreon is proof that there’s an easier way.

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He worries VR is still in danger of becoming a passing fad because the common wisdom of how to build VR games is pushing game studios away. Luke thinks those efforts were misguided. In general, instead of blindly bringing their big-name games to VR, they stuck to bite-size “experiences” or made small original titles that, it’s probably safe to say, didn’t bring them the returns they hoped. It’s why most VR titles look like they’d be at home on a Nintendo Wii. For fluid comfort, VR games have to deliver high-resolution images for each of your eyes - and that has meant a trade-off in fidelity. Most companies also drastically reduced the graphical fidelity of games they brought to VR so they wouldn’t require a powerful, expensive PC.

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Some invested in games with full-body movement and motion controllers one helpful tip to prevent simulator sickness is to let you turn naturally instead of flicking a joystick to jerk your virtual head around. VR startups and VR enthusiasts were deathly afraid a bad first impression would cause people to write off VR entirely before it could reach its potential.įor the most part - I’m looking at you, Resident Evil 7 - that fear didn’t come to pass because the video game industry played ball. “Poisoning the well.” I remember hearing that phrase a lot back when the Oculus Rift was new - it’s what they said behind closed doors when devs brought games to virtual reality without redesigning them to keep players from throwing up. “ I want to be judged for the quality of my work and what I put out, not for how I look or sound.” *Luke isn’t his real name he agreed to speak to The Verge on the condition we wouldn’t reveal personally identifying information.

They’re also supporting his mission to show the video game industry that it’s got VR all wrong. He suspects that’s because they aren’t just there to buy his mods. Every one of his Patreon backers signs up for a $10 monthly fee, and - incredibly - he says two-thirds of them stick around. Today, he currently makes over $20,000 a month modding PC games like Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Horizon Zero Dawn to run in VR headsets instead of the traditional monitors and TVs they were designed for. Now, thousands of people pay him every month to stick their heads into some of their favorite video game worlds.

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In 2020, he released a free mod for one of the most popular video games, Grand Theft Auto V, that lets you play the entire game in VR. “I’m a kid with a fake steering wheel in the backseat who pretends to know where they’re going,” he tells The Verge. Luke Ross* has a hard time telling friends what he does for a living.

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