If you're playing with VR enabled, put your headset on and walk around! Add your map to your addon. Congratulations, you've made and built a map! Now it's time to formally add that map to your addon, so you can select the map from within Half-Life: Alyx's new game menu. Close the tools, and re-launch them to return to the Tools Launcher. Photo by Road to VR. Half-Life: Alyx will likely ‘play best’ on Index thanks to advanced finger-tracking built into the controllers, but that isn’t the only treat those with the headset are First, a PC simply provides far more power than the Snapdragon 865 processor, thus enabling more graphically advanced VR experiences like Half-Life: Alyx. If you want the most advanced VR In some places, playing HL: Alyx, I caught myself thinking that I was kind of playing the same Half-Life 2, which I played a thousand times, but I enjoy it like the first one. While playing, you understand how some natural things from real life fit coolly into the context of the game in VR and especially in Half-Life. I fired the game up using my HTC Vive VR headset and I was immediately met with a view over City 17 as I stood on a balcony. It was a bizarre moment. The best VR gear to play Half-Life: Alyx I have an Index setup, so I'd like to think I am somewhere at the high-end of the consumer VR spectrum. In the order of my preferences: 1) Being able to play without wearing my glasses. I hope there is some lens system so it can automatically compensate for long- or shortsightedness. Wearing VR headset on top of my glasses is always very clunky. Either I am limiting my VR FoV because I have to You’ll still need a VR-ready PC but you won’t need to get another VR headset to play PC VR apps. Using Oculus Quest or Quest 2 to play PC VR is very simple as long as you have a PC with the minimum requirements (see FAQ#2 above) and a compatible cable ( Oculus Link cable for $79 or Anker cable for $18 ). The Vive Pro recently saw some price cuts across the board. The headset alone is $599 (was $799). The Vive Pro Starter Kit, which includes two SteamVR 1.0 base stations and two Vive controllers is Though it’s a standalone headset, with the right cable it can optionally tether to a capable PC to work just like a PC VR headset. Clearly Half-Life: Alyx was a major reason for many Quest It will allow you to connect to your computer and play PCVR games. I play Alyx, Boneworks, and Fallout 4 VR this way. You can also get a USB C wire to connect to your PC but its cumbersome. And airlink is free but its not very consistent. I keep an 10000 mAh external battery in my pocket and connect it to my headset and can play for like 6 hours. 62UXBO.