The highly anticipated UEVR tool celebrates the new year by officially entering public beta, just to breathe new life into VR headsets which are probably gathering dust.
Created by Praydog, this injector allows, as its name suggests, to make a myriad of titles playable in virtual reality under Unreal Engine. On Steam, you can find more than 10,000 games meeting this criterion. UEVR therefore represents a blessing for users of VR headsets, while the video game offering in the field is somewhat dry.
A new engine for VR headsets
Praydog is a modder known for making games compatible with virtual reality. It is in fact to him that we owe REFramework, offering this possibility for games under RE Engine like Resident Evil 4before Capcom took care of it exclusively for the PS VR2.
His masterpiece, UEVR, however, is on a much larger scale. This tool, now available in public beta, offers the same treatment, but this time for games under Unreal Engine. And it is clear that there are many of them today.
This injector also works universally (so not exclusively on Steam) and adds a number of features in this new version. These include full support for 6DOF head movement tracking, automatic management of the in-game interface, three rendering methods, movement management at the scale of a given room, and many more. other beautiful things.
A promising tool that will be refined over time
To try UEVR, simply download the mod on Github or via its dedicated site, cited in the source below. Once this is done, you will only have to launch a game under Unreal Engine, then run the UEVR tool. An interface will open, on which you must select the launched game, choose between OpenVR and OpenXR, press the “Inject” button, and virtual reality will do the rest. A more detailed tutorial made by Waifu Enjoyer is available below.
Given that UEVR is still in the beta phase, however, the experience is not likely to be optimal across such a large catalog of games. There will be problems, but some titles already tested by the community seem to work like a charm in virtual reality. The tool allows you to set up optimized profiles per game, to benefit from them in the best conditions according to everyone’s sensitivities. The list of titles already tested and functional includes:
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite
- Atomic Heart
- RoboCop: Rogue City
- RoboQuest
- Trepang2
- Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
That being said, the tool shows itself to be extremely promising, despite its very recent entry into public beta. We can bet that Praydog and a passionate community will continue to refine the formula and thus make some people want to dive into this small (and unfortunately not lucrative) universe that is virtual reality gaming.
Source : UEVR.io
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