Watch this now: new footage shows Elden Ring VR might be too immersive

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You’ll soon be able to explore the Lands Between in first-person, with an upcoming Elden Ring VR mod that plonks you behind the eyeballs of your Tarnished. New gameplay footage shows us just how big of a game-changer the mod will be, as well as just how terrifyingly immersive FromSoftware’s brutal fantasy world becomes when you’re staring it directly in the face.

UploadVR has shared a hands-on 15-minute preview of the Elden Ring VR mod in action. Created by experienced modder Luke Ross, it lets you play through the entire game from a first-person perspective, so you can square up to all the Elden Ring bosses from a new point of view. It doesn’t support motion controls, however, so you’ll still be using a controller to swing your sword and roll around, just as you normally would.

The mod looks amazingly smooth. In the preview, the player’s able to take on a Tree Sentinel, explore Limgrave, stare down a dragon, backstab a few guards, and even navigate the floating on-screen menus. It all plays just like Elden Ring's vanilla version. 

But it’s not all smooth sailing. Between frequent object clipping, NPC stuttering, and nausea-inducing camera rolls, playing the game in VR actually looks pretty difficult. UploadVR said that trying to fight any “boss or enemy with a first-person camera, constantly diving to the floor to roll or getting lost in a chaotic mash of textures as you move into attack, is majorly disorienting”.

It also looks terrifying. Having a Tree Sentinel charge toward you is scary enough in the vanilla version of Elden Ring, but having them swing a massive axe directly at your face takes the game to a whole new level of horror. While FromSoftware’s action RPGs have always leaned into the grotesque and frightening,