This fan-made VR Mod for Portal 2 is so good it’ll make you wonder why we never saw an official version

It’s another week, another VR Corner and another example of modders showing the rest of the world how VR should be done – this time with a flatscreen to VR mod for Portal 2 that brings 6DoF and motion controlled portal shooting to the game.

In the video below, you can watch me role-play my way through the first hour of the game as I wake up at the very start of Portal 2’s excellently comical campaign and subsequently push my way through a plethora of head-scratching puzzles.

The main thing that struck me during my time playing the mod was just how ‘right’ it felt. If I’d have never played Portal 2 before and you’d have told me that it had been designed specifically for VR, I’d have believed you. It all works so well!

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