Upcoming Zelda: BOTW VR Mod! (First Test)

This is a quick test of the upcoming Zelda: BOTW mod Me, Etra and MelonSpeedruns have been working on! (ignore the shakiness of the video, it wasn’t that way in the headset). Ever since playing Zelda BOTW, it’s always been a dream to play it in VR (and it’s finally coming together!). (And no, I don’t mean that super low res, low graphics, 3DOF running on Cardboard that the Switch version has! 😛) The mod features full 6DOF, 1st and 3rd person in 3D VR. There’s no release date yet, but join the “Flatscreen to VR“ Discord for updates: Full motion controls would be amazing, but that would be a very different modding challenge (not sure if that’s possible at this time). We may go with a method that uses similar controls to the Wii (and soon Switch) Skyward Sword where gestures with your VR controller causes different swings. If we rendered the game sword in the player’s hand while in first person (outside of the game engine), it might work well to feel like your holding the sword (and
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