Tower Unite Tries to Run as a VR Game when the HTC Vive is Plugged in

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No it doesn’t. The game isn’t playable when it’s like that. If there’s any support, it’s through the engine and should be disabled.

According to the devs, it does.

VR support

To my knowledge, there is already some pretty basic VR support in Tower Unite. It’s not nearly done yet, but you can use a Rift / Vive (I think) with it already. None of the menus are designed for it yet, but keep that in mind. It’s very basic functionality. This is something that they team has stated they want to do at some point, so it’ll happen eventually. I’m not sure about the motion controller thing though.

VR support

Although we’ve talked about VR support in the past, it’s something that’s going to need to be re-discussed going into the future. At the core, yes, it’s completely possible for us to integrate HMD support. It’s already integrated at a basic level. It sounds awesome, why wouldn’t you want to be put into a world like this? But here’s the thing—when we talked about integrating VR into Tower, “room scale” wasn’t even common terminology, it was back in the day when people thought you could just tac…

Also, some people have already got it running in VR

VR Thread

Ok, so- [image] Yeah, that’s what your thinking. The DK2 works with the Alpha demo out of the box. I just thought to myself “Huh, that guy on facepunch got good results by just leaving it in direct mode. Wonder about…” Wasn’t expecting it to have head tracking or rotational movement, but it did. My xbox controller even started working to some extent. Everything works perfectly. Except the judder, but I’m sure after some optimization that will go away. So, I’m gonna make a video sometime…