01) Why play Half Life: Alyx on the Oculus Go?

Half-Life: Alyx is a "killer app" for virtual reality, and a "must play" for fans of the Half-Life series.

The game requires a Steam-VR compatible VR headset. You can use an "affordable" one (around US$ 400) like the Oculus Rift S or Oculus Quest (both hard to find in stock), or Windows Mixed Reality, up to one of the currently most advanced and expensive VR headsets: the Vive Index.

While the Oculus Go is not officially supported, it can be used to play many SteamVR games with the right hardware, software and configuration, including Half-Life-Alyx. Still, I can't stress this enough: the Oculus Go CAN'T provide an experience as good as the officially supported headsets! I do NOT recommend anyone to buy the Oculus Go just to play this game (save your money for a better headset)! But if you already own an Oculus Go, have a PC that can play the game, can't buy a better headset at the moment and don't mind learning a somewhat awkward controller system, this project is for you.

I've completed the game with all achievements, playing on my Oculus Go connected to my PC via Wi-Fi, in Story mode (the easiest level of difficulty). Of course, the experience is certainly not as fun or intuitive as with a 6 DoF headset (Oculus Go is only 3 DoF, has a single controller and doesn't have enough buttons), but the game is fully playable and I enjoyed it immensely! I'd rather buy an Oculus Quest to play the game with, but since I can't buy it now for a reasonable price where I live, the Oculus Go allows me to have my Half-Life fix right now!