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Simple Hack Enables VR Mode For Oculus Rift In Alien: Isolation

Posted by samzenpus on from the like-it's-in-your-living-room dept.

An anonymous reader writes In a surprising appearance at E3 2014, Oculus showed a virtual reality demo version of Creative Assembly's forthcoming first-person horror game, Alien: Isolation. Despite intense reactions to the demo, the publisher stated that the full game would not feature Oculus Rift support. However, intentional or not, the developer left the code hidden in the game which can be enabled with a simple hack, leading to full support for the Oculus Rift including positional tracking.

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  1. Re:The point? by peragrin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who says it always works flawlessly? have they played through the entire game several times? maybe there is crash code or places where you can literally get stuck in a wall.

    Lastly it isn't like you can go buy an oculus at best buy. Maybe they haven't fully tested the system. maybe they are waiting on oculus to actually release a product to consumers. Instead of a small beta tester pool.

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