Check out Half-Life: Alyx being played without VR

The discovery of basic movement and shooting support suggests that the future is bright for Half-Life: Alyx modding.

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A streamer discovered a console command that allows you to use the mouse and keyboard to move and shoot in Half-Life: Alyx instead of VR gear.
The game lacks much functionality in this state, but it implies it may be easier to make the game playable without VR than originally thought.
Valve's Robin Walker said he "looks forward" to seeing players create mods that remove VR from Half-Life: Alyx.


On a livestream, Twitch livestreamer and Valve News Network founder Tyler McVicker discovered that you can move around freely in Half-Life: Alyx by using mouse and keyboard instead of Vr tech while datamining the game's files and messing around with the code. Soon after, he discovered the "vr_enable_fake_vr_test" console command, and when he entered it Alyx's hands popped up on the screen, allowing him to fire her gun without any VR gear. You can watch...