wp-plugin-hostgator domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114ol-scrapes domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23190201\/luke-ross-vr-real-mod-gta-v-elden-ring-horizon-red-dead<\/a> Luke Ross* has a hard time telling friends what he does for a living. He can\u2019t quite believe it himself. \u201cI\u2019m a kid with a fake steering wheel in the backseat who pretends to know where they\u2019re going,\u201d he tells The Verge<\/em>. In 2020, he released a free mod for one of the most popular video games, Grand Theft Auto V<\/em>, that lets you play the entire game in VR. Now, thousands of people pay him every month to stick their heads into some of their favorite video game worlds.<\/p>\n Today, he currently makes over $20,000 a month modding PC games like Elden Ring<\/em>, Red Dead Redemption 2,<\/em> and Horizon Zero Dawn<\/em> to run in VR headsets instead of the traditional monitors and TVs they were designed for. Every one of his Patreon backers<\/a> signs up for a $10 monthly fee, and \u2014 incredibly \u2014 he says two-thirds of them stick around.<\/p>\n He suspects that\u2019s because they aren\u2019t just there to buy his mods. They\u2019re also supporting his mission to show the video game industry that it\u2019s got VR all wrong.<\/p>\n *Luke isn\u2019t his real name; he agreed to speak to <\/em>The Verge on the condition we wouldn\u2019t reveal personally identifying information. <\/em>\u201cI want to be judged for the quality of my work and what I put out, not for how I look or sound.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cPoisoning the well.\u201d I remember hearing that phrase a lot back when the Oculus Rift was new \u2014 it\u2019s what they said behind closed doors when devs brought games to virtual reality without designing them to keep players from throwing up. VR startups and VR enthusiasts were deathly afraid a bad first impression would cause people to write off VR entirely before it could reach its potential. <\/p>\n
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