It’s been a while since we last checked out Doom on the Oculus Rift.
It’s actually an incredible experience (so long as you’re not affected by VR motion sickness), bringing the classic shooter and it’s siblings to life like never before. With the Rift headset it’s possible to explore and examine the 2.5D worlds of Doom, Hexen and Heretic in vivid sterescopic 3D, making the thrills, gore and action more visceral than any other port or release. In short, playing Doom in virtual reality is the best way to experience this classic PC game.
Yesterday the Rift port of Doom, called GZ3Doom was updated with Oculus SDK 0.7 support, meaning everyone can now play the game with the latest firmware and Windows 10. Here’s the full change-log from version 1.8.6:
- Convert to Oculus SDK 0.7 (direct mode only)
- Title screen is now usable in the Rift
- HUD, weapon, and crosshair layers are a bit less nailed-to-your-head in the Rift.
- There is just one Rift shortcut menu launcher now.
- Rift view is mirrored to screen.
To play Doom you’ll need an original WAD file (that’s a file containing an entire game, GZ3Doom comes with the shareware build of Doom 1), then after loading the game select the WAD of choice, launch the console by pressing the ` key, then enter vr_mode 8. Press Enter and GZ3Doom will automatically configure itself for the Oculus Rift.