Return to the World of Half-Life in Virtual Reality. Half-Life Alyx VR is a spin-off of the Half-Life series, designed for VR headsets. The action takes place in City 17 between the events of the first and second installment, with the lead role given to Alyx Vance – Gordon Freeman's companion known from Half-Life 2. A Valve Index VR headset, Or, for VR games like Half-Life: Alyx to eventually work untethered, over headsets I can put anywhere without having to move back to my VR room, like I can do with It's in their interest if vr headset sales (even though it's of Sony psvr) to increase. That would enable more vr games to be developed and would ultimately give valve a chance to sell their headsets. Valve can't make every good vr game and good vr games can't be developed until there is a large enough user base. Valve Index was released this past June and is Valve's flagship VR headset. The company says Index was "built hand-in-hand" with Half-Life: Alyx, but it comes at a steep price--the headset alone Alright, so first those black bars will happen on any VR headset because it's an artifact of timewapring. You can see in the video when he demonstrates the bars problem he's really whipping the headset around at speeds you wouldn't typically be doing while playing. If you did that with any headset you could get those black bars. A VR Return to Half-Life. Set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Alyx Vance and her father Eli mount an early resistance to the Combine's brutal occupation of Earth. Wanted to keep this going just in case someone else has the same issue. So I decided to try my PC I run for emulation. Same build but with a 3080ti instead of a 4090. Same OS, same headset. Works fine, wired and airlink. Just weird. Thought maybe it has to be down to a setting in the oculus app or steam VR app. Uninstalled both and reinstalled. But anyway back to Valve's equipment, yes it is expensive, but at least they aren't forcing you to buy it yet. Like I said, maybe we'll get lucky and Valve will release a PC port after everyone buys an Index so they can make more money off of Half-Life: Alyx with non-VR users. It's a smart way to do it. #14. Topline: Thanks to the announcement of Half-Life: Alyx, the first new entry in the series since 2007, Valve's high-end virtual reality headset Index shipped 103,000 units, according to Nielsen's Half-Life: Alyx is a 2020 virtual reality first-person shooter developed and published by Valve Software. The highly anticipated continuation of the acclaimed Half-Life series, Half-Life: Alyx was designed to be the flagship title for Valve's own VR headset, the Index. Set five years before the events of Half-Life 2, players control 19-year-old tB9JEXq.