“Poisoning the well.” I remember hearing that phrase a lot back when the Oculus Rift was new - it’s what they said behind closed doors when devs brought games to virtual reality without redesigning them to keep players from throwing up. “ I want to be judged for the quality of my work and what I put out, not for how I look or sound.” *Luke isn’t his real name he agreed to speak to The Verge on the condition we wouldn’t reveal personally identifying information.

They’re also supporting his mission to show the video game industry that it’s got VR all wrong. He suspects that’s because they aren’t just there to buy his mods. Every one of his Patreon backers signs up for a $10 monthly fee, and - incredibly - he says two-thirds of them stick around.

Today, he currently makes over $20,000 a month modding PC games like Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Horizon Zero Dawn to run in VR headsets instead of the traditional monitors and TVs they were designed for. Now, thousands of people pay him every month to stick their heads into some of their favorite video game worlds. In 2020, he released a free mod for one of the most popular video games, Grand Theft Auto V, that lets you play the entire game in VR. “I’m a kid with a fake steering wheel in the backseat who pretends to know where they’re going,” he tells The Verge. Luke Ross* has a hard time telling friends what he does for a living.

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