
You will now see that an ‘Activate Virtual Reality’ option has been added to the main menu. Once Steam has completed all of it’s updates launch the videogame. At this point there may be an additional update for Team Fortress 2: allow Steam to complete this process before continuing. Click ‘Set Launch Options…’ and enter ‘-vr’ (without apostrophes) into the command line. Next, right-click on the Team Fortress 2 listing in your Steam Library and select ‘Properties’. Once you’re ready to begin true, exit the videogame and ensure that your Steam client has downloaded all available updates for the videogame. The videogame features text that is relatively hard to read through the Oculus Rift headset.


Team Fortress 2 is perhaps the easiest to jiggle into position, and so VRFocus has chosen it to be our first ‘Mod of the Week’ title!īefore beginning to play Team Fortress 2 with the Oculus Rift ensure you’ve played through the tutorial on a standard monitor. However, at present, while the technical demonstrations offered by Oculus are immediately compatible full release titles are not so easily configured. Once you’ve taken your Oculus Rift out of it’s box, plugged in the legion of cables and calibrated the motion detection and stereoscopic 3D, you’re going to want to jump straight into a videogame. Still hugely popular and now free-to-play, Team Fortress 2 is arguably the best place to start with a new Oculus Rift headset.

The development studio has been retroactively updating some of their most popular titles to use with the headset, beginning with Team Fortress 2. Always keen to jump on new technologies for the advancement of interactive entertainment, Valve has been one of the key supporters of the Oculus Rift headset since it’s initial unveiling.
