You all saw this, right?
Who wants to return to Los Santos to play the full GTA V in VR?
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GTA V is a masterpiece. In my opinion, it builds one of the most believable, enjoyable and detailed virtual worlds ever created in videogame. So, it pained me a lot that I couldn't experience it properly in VR. There were a couple of VR mods out there, sure, but they're mostly Vive-centric, outdated and basically don't work correctly anymore, or at least I couldn't make them work well enough to get the feeling of immersion that I craved. I was looking for a mod that would allow me to play the FULL game from start to 100% completion on my Rift, and to leisurely spend my time strolling or driving through the incredible locations of Los Santos and Blaine County, with a feel that was as close as possible to that of a native VR game.
Since I couldn't find any suitable solutions, I built one myself. If you wish, you too can now enjoy the results by going to my GitHub release
page and following the quick setup instructions given at the start of the
README. My mod is standalone and doesn't need vorpX or anything else installed, apart from the original game of course.
This is the second entry in my R.E.A.L. VR mod series: the first one was a VR conversion for an old gem, way smaller and less known than GTA V, but much loved by us die-hard fans: No One Lives Forever 2. You can still find that mod
here (sadly, due to a stupid deadlock among huge, soulless corporations that may or may not hold some of the rights to the game, NOLF2 can no longer be legally purchased, although as usual the internet will
find a way).
Getting back to the wonderful GTA V, just a couple of warnings: my R.E.A.L. mod is NOT advisable for people who are new to VR and still have to develop their "VR legs", due to smooth locomotion and in general the fast pace of the game. Also, cutscenes have a close-up camera that might make a few people queasy (although they can be skipped if they're too much for you). However, if you are patient and build your VR legs gradually, I believe that being able to be transported inside the amazing world that Rockstar created is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be had in VR at the moment.
I hope that you have as much fun playing this VR conversion as I had developing and, um, "testing" it!!
P.S. This mod is obviously for offline, Story Mode only. Don't try to use it for Online: it won't work, and you'd just risk getting banned.
P.P.S. If there is enough interest (say, if the mod gets more than 10,000 downloads, or if any experienced GTA modder contacts me to expand it) I will make the complete source code available.
Edit: I noticed that lots of people want to see videos of this in action before downloading. I'd be more than happy if some YouTubers could come to the rescue: just be warned about one possible technical difficulty. The alternate-eye rendering that I'm using for this mod will probably make your recording come out jittery (it happened to Nathie for example). If you encounter this problem, just activate the mod hotkeys with F11 and then hit NUMPAD 2 to disable the stereo rendering for the duration of the streaming. The same trick can be used when exporting videos from the Rockstar Editor. And I believe it can also be used to make the mod work correctly with Revive (although of course it will not be stereo 3D, unless /u/crossvr and I manage to work out some other solution).