Team Fortress 2 will be Oculus Rift's First Official Game Release

[Shawn Zipay]

Given the delay of Doom 3 support for the Oculus Rift, another company stepped up to take the throne. That company is Valve. In speaking with Engadget, Valve's Joe Ludwig revealed that Team Fortress 2 will receive a free update in the coming weeks that will enable "VR Mode" for the game.

"This is a mode that everybody who has a Rift dev kit and access to Team Fortress 2 will be able to play, just on public and in the same servers that everybody else is playing in," Ludwig said. Of course, "everybody" doesn't include Mac or Linux TF2 players just yet. "We don't have a Mac or Linux SDK from Oculus quite yet, but once we get those, we'll get it ported over to those other platforms," he explained.

Support for Linux and OS X are planned for the Oculus SDK. They are coming "as quickly as possible", so Valve will undoubtedly get their hands on that as soon as they can.

(via Engadget)

[K-16]

On one hand, I'm surprised VALVe pulled it off faster than id Software, because I would've thought Doom 3 is easier to design for the Oculus Rift compared to Team Fortress 2. On the other hand, I should've seen this coming since VALVe has a hardware lab with dedicated staff, and has been doing this sort of thing without the Oculus Rift. Quite frankly, if the Oculus Rift didn't exist, VALVe would've started it with some other company. So I guess this shouldn't be a surprise.

[CptainCrunch]

That guy sure looks happy about it.

Also, I wonder if you scan those background pictures in your phone if they will take you places?

[jimykx]

You don't need a phone, just an image editor and some online qr code decoder. I'm too lazy for that right now

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You don't need a phone, just an image editor and some online qr code decoder. I'm too lazy for that right now