New Portal like Oculus Quest 2 recreation is already making our heads spin

Portal, Valve’s well-known puzzle platformer, has but to leap to VR headsets like Half-Life: Alyx did, however fortunately, Pixel Framers’ Warp Lab might be the following neatest thing. Arriving on Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) and PC VR in Spring 2023, Warp Lab supplies a brand new twist on a well-known premise.

Providing you with one other excuse to load up your greatest VR headset, Warp Lab guarantees “immersive player-controlled portals throughout a various array of puzzle, fight, and sandbox ranges.” Set throughout ten marketing campaign ranges, it doesn’t copy Portal’s iconic orange and blue portals, however Pixel Framers is utilizing VR to offer a brand new spin on gameplay. For instance, now you can seize objects immediately by means of them or peek your head by means of to scout out enemies.

You possibly can watch this above, however that’s not all. Warp Lab’s Steam web page outlines some extra modes, together with a physics sandbox mode designed for “limitless experimentation” and on-line leaderboards. Alongside an Enviornment mode that “enables you to take full benefit of portals in fight conditions,” Android Central stories that multiplayer will arrive in a post-launch replace.

Past mods, Warp Lab is probably going the closest factor we’ll ever get to Portal in digital actuality. After Half-Life: Alyx launched in 2020, Valve’s Robin Walker beforehand advised IGN that Portal VR was thought of however finally turned down, citing the drastic gameplay modifications wanted to make it work. Given Portal’s momentum-based required puzzles, that’s a wise name to forestall nausea, and we already worry how that’ll play out in Warp Lab.