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Half-Life 2: VR Mod This free mod is one of the best VR experiences I've had. Of course, a lot of that chalks up to the fact that Half-Life 2 is a great game that still holds up today. To my knowledge, the mod started out extremely basic with just simple point and shoot functionality and several essential game mechanics being unusable, but the team has been plugging away at it for a long time now and my experience with the current version was great. Of course, this is based on a non-VR game so your interactivity with the environment is mostly limited to what you could do in the original game. Don't expect Alyx levels of immersion. However, you can manually reload weapons and pump your shotgun, hold two objects at once, wield a turret in one hand and a gun in the other, aim the gravity gun much more easily, rotate objects to create improvised cover, shoot around corners, swing the crowbar as fast as your arm can move, and freely toss grenades (though an aimed throw is available for tricky spots). It's a ton of fun and it makes you much deadlier in combat. They also added recoil to the two-handed guns to encourage holding them properly, which is cool. The pistol still has a little too much recoil if you ask me, though. I'm hoping they adjust that. You can also choose to turn on a laser sight to assist with aiming, which I would recommend doing since the game wasn't originally made with iron sights in mind. My only major problem with this mod was the airboat section. No matter how strong your VR legs are, this WILL make you motion sick, guaranteed. I don't blame the mod team for this. The game wasn't made for VR and there is only so much you can do to increase the comfort of this incredibly bumpy section. In fact, I heard they plan to add an option to just play the boat driving with a projected flat screen to eliminate the nausea. It may not be immersive to drive that way, but no immersion is worth making yourself barf. Aside from that, I can't recommend this mod highly enough. Team Beef is doing a great job adding VR to non-VR games and I can't wait to see what they do next.