Thanks for the review!

Beautiful map! I reviewed it here: https://youtu.be/EC15Q_fNRtc?si=j9odvmMEtfgsiuhT

I'm assuming you've probably found the fusion reactor by now, but i'll give two hints as to where its at;
Fly up high enough and try to see if you can spot any buildings you don't recall visiting
Check behind the pillar you start out on, and you'll see a unique looking structure over there

Also for anyone like me who spent over half an hour trying to find the cavern;
The 'dome' is slightly misleading (assuming you took 'dome' to mean the large dome-shaped space next to the hotel). Check instead underneath the sphere-shaped spot near the center of the map. There is a tunnel there hidden behind some trees and foliage.

Found the cavern and rode in the airship but can't find the fusion reactor.
I went around the entire outer perimiter looking back towards the entire floating basilisk
(after 1st trying to also ride the moving airship, felt like a dog chasing a car)
I even crossed underneath the structure looking up
and as far as GIYF, it really wasn't mine this time.
Any clues on its whereabouts, anyone?

what i need do, to open your map in s2fm? looks beautiful

I am primarily interested in VR as "experience", and not "game" as such. I agree that the huge focus on combat for so much VR content limits the market potential for this amazing technology. I am trying to create interesting environments with exploration as the primary focus, while incorporating some challenges and puzzles to create engagement. It seems likely to me that the future of VR content will include many things we can't yet imagine, and that shooting at things will be a very small part of that future.

It is a shame that the VR market for exploration without shooting something is very small

Is this inspired partly by games like MYST (Beautiful scenery without a combat-focus)?

The odd part is that I dont fear looking down from a high height, its looking up.
The few climbs I saw around looked fine enough, climbing rock walls is fun, but hanging from them is very much so not ;3;

I have a major fear of heights myself, so you're not alone. Making Sky Mesa helped me get used to the visual part at least. You can avoid the first climb and just jump down to the forest level and explore. Find the private house for a clue for continuing. Unfortunately there will be more climbing up the main rock tower but you can avoid some of it by using the powered rope ascender.

Love the atmosphere of the place, but as a person who is afraid of heights in most cases, after going across in the drone and climbing up to the first platform, the moment I started to climb the rope made my knees buckle when it wanted me to cross by grabbing each of the hanging bars.
Hopefully there can be a version where you can simply teleport past those particular moments in future

Thanks for the comment. This is exactly what I was going for!

So far this is amazing! Great work!
I always want to show friends & family the realism and beauty of VR, but don't want to throw them in the main HL:A game, especially if they aren't into shooters. This is PERFECT!

A great work in progress!

You get it. People like yourself will sell things to lazy people like me. $5-$10 here, $2 there is going to make you a very rich person.

The map-making needs help.

In Alyx, her multi-tool is explained very well so that players become adept quickly.

At the wooden tube, it took awhile for me to understand. I would place my hand into a gap and I couldn't reach the next gap. I tried again and learned that my grip hand allows me to move where I want to be a bit more than I understood previously. This is what I mean by the map needs to have a few easy practice runs to feel more natural.

The map needs to have more clarity about the area. Perhaps a park map sign here and there, showing paths or climbs.

I was disappointed that I could not open any doors. Half-life Alyx is amazing partly because you can grab and interact with everything. Taking that away reduces my enjoyment.

The waterfalls look fake. They sound great though.

@drobertbaker A perfect vacation from the Combine, indeed! FYI not sure how you got stuck; I was able to fly back out the way I came in. If you want to take a look at around 44:00 in my video, you can see what I did.

What Skummeh said! I almost wept at the beauty as I lounged in the lobby pool listening to the soft jazz. This is a combination of the perfect vacation and the perfect dream. You even get to fly like in a dream, fall hundreds of feet and not die at the bottom. I loved the mechanics and the interesting things to do. I did however get stuck with no way out of the reactor room.

With the fixes in place and some fantastic adjustments, this is an absolutely beautiful VR experience! My only real complaint was a bit of lag at times, but nothing to drop the map from a perfect 10/10 for me. Well done! https://youtu.be/_PA7BEsJvG8

Hi. I made a video for the updated version here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7e4zo2px_4

can we get this map for s2fm?

Hi.
I have made a video for this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STfOfhjPKc4

Possibly the first VR episode of 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' (old TV show with Robin Leach), or a new YouTube video that walks you through a mega-million dollar home.
There were bugs that revolved around trying to move inside of an air vehicle kicked me out of it, and I was floating in space above the vehicle, or in the case of the blimp, I stayed in place and watched the blimp fly around me.
A relaxing, enjoyable romp, that I wouldn't mind seeing more of, but in movie-based genres (e.g., walking around a portion of the USS Enterprise, or the City of Gondor).

Bruuuuuuuuuuuh insane to finally be here at this point just amazing work mate.

This was quite astounding in so many ways. Clearly a great deal of thought went into the effort, but I did note some pervasive bugs. Unlisted video feedback here: https://youtu.be/_DLukrx1__Q

Absolutely incredible. I'm amazed something like this exists. It's rare to have a VR experience that 'pampers' you like this one, but honestly, I've never been to a more posh place in the megaverse. Troubles with locomotion and moving platforms aside, I enjoyed every inch of this. A couple of the climbing routes rivaled that of The Climb! I wonder what secret underground caverns i might have missed prior to my quest 2 running out of charge. BRAVO.

Everything seems to be working now. Maybe try a re-download. Unsubscribe to remove the original version from your system, then subscribe again to download the new version. Thanks again for the feedback.

After looking into the elevator issue a bit more I'm thinking the problem is my scripts are not running. If I just walk up to the elevator and try to walk into it, it works fine for me. The display of the popup message and the operation of the elevator are handled with scripts, so not seeing the popup message get bigger and getting stuck in the elevator is what would happen if my scripts are not being run. Perhaps I have to take some additional steps to get the scripts to bundle with the addon. I will have to research this and in the meantime I will take the map down.

To use the elevator, and all other vehicle in Sky Mesa, please stand on the red circle in front of it. You can't use the elevator by trying to walk into it. There is supposed to be a message that pops up to explain this, but it looks like this is displaying too small to see. Unfortunately I see this message easily in the Workshop Tools, so this would be hard to fix because I can't see the problem on my end. An alternative is to for me to change this message to a static size. I will see what I can do to fix this and will re-upload as soon as I can. In the meantime maybe restart the map and stand on the red circle and you should enter the elevator automatically. All other vehicles work the same way.

I'm stuck in the elevator and can't open my menu. What do I do?

Good blog Bob Loblaw ;-)

Looks cool, but the pop-up sign at the first elevator is only slightly bigger than a postage stamp, and the first elevator does not move.