The dev kit went back to my editor, and Valve disabled Half-Life 2's VR mode for reasons I can no longer Google, because the algorithm has latched onto the recently released Half-Life 2: VR Mod.

It was probably the most cyberpunk thing I've ever done, a glimpse of the future viewed through memories of my past. Watch on YouTube Half-Life: Alyx is Valve's official VR effort At one point, I dropped down some nondescript drainage chasm in Route Kanal, and my stomach physically lurched as the ground rushed up to meet me. There was an added burliness to Civil Protection, making their shoves and riot-stick thwacks that much more physical. Suddenly, the introductory train station became a vast, vaulted church to misery and implied threat, such that you had to crane your neck up to watch doctor Breen spout combine propaganda from his giant, rectangular display. What you got was this weirdly retrofuturist experience, as you explored a grainy, letterboxed version of City 17 that was nonetheless completely there, enveloping your vision like a headcrab. But there was Half-Life 2, for which Valve had implemented a hacky VR mode that you could activate with some console tomfoolery. Understandably given the name, there were not games for the developers kit outside of a few incredibly basic demos. Back in the primordial days of 2013, I was lucky enough to get my ungainly sausage-mitts on an Oculus Developer's Kit – the prototype headset that eventually led to the Oculus Rift. Half-Life 2 was the first game I ever played in VR. This week, Rick Lane goes back to the future in Half-Life 2: VR Mod. Reality Bites is a new monthly feature all about Virtual Reality.

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