The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion got this whole remastered thing, yeah? It’s dropped on PCs and consoles, giving all those graphics and bells everyone’s been drooling over since, like, 2006. And before you could mutter “stop right there, criminal scum!” some VR enthusiasts are already fiddling around with it. Honestly, didn’t see that coming so fast.
Okay, so Bethesda bumped it up to Unreal Engine 5. Goodbye, old Gamebryo. Now you’ve got your sparkly new textures, models, animations… the whole shebang. It’s like giving your favorite old t-shirt a fancy makeover. But hey, the real kicker is what it means for modders. They can dive in with Praydog’s UEVR plugin—don’t ask me what that means, but it sounds nifty. I’m all thumbs with tech, honestly.
UEVR, I hear, is kinda packed. It does 6DOF head movements, has this full 3D stereoscopic stuff, motion controller business, and whatever OpenXR runtime support is. It’s a lot. But you gotta tweak stuff yourself, no lazy shortcuts here. YouTuber ‘LunchAndVR’ is apparently fiddling around with it. Props to them—I’d just break it all.
Oh, and if you wanna peek at what they’re doing, there’s this gameplay video they dropped. Rats, zombies, dramatic lighting—a whole medieval disco in a dungeon. But LunchAndVR’s still in the “playing around” stage. Crashes and techy hurdles still standing in the way of smooth 6DOF profiles. Real life, huh?
Anyway, vid runs indoors like it’s got something to prove but trips up a bit outdoors. Well, that’s what they say, at least.
Pro tip, though: got a high-end rig? You’re in luck. The game was on medium settings with DLSS. VR was on a Quest 3 using Virtual Desktop like it’s a VDXR showroom—‘Ultra’ mode, whatever that means. Specs-wise, imagine an Nvidia RTX 4090, Intel Core i9-13900, and a beefy 64GB RAM doing their best to make it all tick at 72hz. Not exactly budget-friendly, but still. You wanna VR in Oblivion? Pay the tech toll.
Not the end-all yet—people can still hop into Oblivion VR. Praydog’s mod is out there, and some test profiles, too. LunchAndVR’s tossed out a couple of profiles: 6DOF from ‘Keyser’ for smoother VR antics, and a 3DOF from ‘Pande4360’ with, surprise surprise, more VR smoothing tweaks.
But, heads up, you’ll need the legit remastered Oblivion PC version, either from Steam or Xbox’s PC Game Pass. Like, no getting around that part. LunchAndVR said so, not me.