Someone modded Diablo 2 into VR and it looks surprisingly great

A modder going by Sergious — Reddit username Fantastic-Author2736 — has built a VR mod for Diablo 2 that puts you directly behind the Sorceress's eyes, and footage shared on Reddit shows it working far better than you'd expect.

The mod runs in first-person, with the player's left forearm displaying the character's health and mana bars and toolbar, inventory sitting on the belt, and the map held in hand. Sergious built it using FlatVR and BodyWalk, though BodyWalk is apparently optional. The mod files are publicly available on GitHub if you want to try it yourself.

Diablo 2 — released by Blizzard in 2000 and still widely regarded as the high point of the series — was built around a fixed isometric camera that keeps you hovering over the action like a detached god. Flipping that into first-person makes the grimy fields of Act 1 feel genuinely oppressive in a way the top-down view never quite manages. It also raises the obvious question of whether Blizzard will ever experiment with a closer camera angle in the mainline series. Diablo 5, recently announced at BlizzCon, doesn't appear to be going that direction.

On the hardware side, Valve just released its Steam Frame headset — Eurogamer reviewed it and came away impressed, though the base model costs £889. If you own one, the hybrid mode for non-VR games could theoretically let you run other Diablo titles while Sergious keeps working on the Diablo 2 port.