{"id":53820,"date":"2013-05-13T11:07:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=53820"},"modified":"2013-05-13T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:09:10","slug":"half-life-2-gets-oculus-rift-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/53820-half-life-2-gets-oculus-rift-support","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life 2 gets Oculus Rift support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has added Oculus Rift support for Valve\u2019s PC masterpiece, Half-Life 2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just shipped a beta for Half-Life 2 that includes Oculus Rift support,&#8221; said Valve Programer Joe Ludwig. &#8220;To get it, open the properties for HL2 in Steam, set your command line to &#8216;-vr,&#8217; and opt-in to the SteamPipe beta. This should ship to everybody in a few weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are a few known issues that the developers have encountered, particularly that the zoom UI shows up in a quad in the middle of the screen instead of on the edges of the screen, and that the HUD is dimmer and a bit tougher to read.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, a number of Valve games have hit Linux, allowing Penguin-powered gamers to get in on the Portal and Half-Life action.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.oculusvr.com\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=42&amp;t=957\" target=\"_blank\">Oculus Rift Forums\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Valve gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49498-valve-ports-team-fortress-2-onto-virtual-reality-goggles.html\">Valve ports Team Fortress 2 onto Virtual Reality goggles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/49356-top-gaming-gadgets-from-ces-2013.html\">Top gaming gadgets from CES 2013<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49027-valve-shows-off-pc-hardware-project-at-ces.html\">Valve shows off PC hardware project at CES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48106-steam-big-picture-mode-launched.html\">Steam Big Picture Mode launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality headset adds a new dimension to Valve\u2019s iconic sequel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":53821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,2224,6049,697,6050,9959],"class_list":["post-53820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-half-life-2","tag-oculus-rift","tag-valve","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr-headset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53822,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53820\/revisions\/53822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}