Yes, you do. You still need a vr headset to even
get the fucking game.
And at least around here, it's certainly not from a lack of trying, but the chances to even try out
any vr headset for anything is entirely too few and far between. Pretty much had to go to one of the malls on the richer part of town to even find a shop that specializes in vr-enabled entertainment. Surprise, it's all glorified mobile phone gaming shit. 50+ games and not one station was even equipped to enable playing Half Life Alyx.
The only retail shops even carrying headsets now are all selling Oculus crap and of course are fixed displays so you can't even try them on to see if they'd even fit. With the size of my noggin, that's a really frustrating problem. So even now in current year, I can only say I've had experience with a grand total of two such instances and sets of gear. The OG htc vive and the original PS VR.
The HTC vive was in a shop that no longer exists anymore (Fry's electronics). It sold for $700 and required a setup space bigger than all of my living room; it also needed half a dozen sensors that sold for an additional $70 each. Ultimately what let it down was that it was almost a full second of delay between me moving my head and it registering in the lenses. To say that got me nauseous quickly is an understatement. Nevermind how offensive the pricing was for the experience it did give.
Had a grand total of two sessions with the original ps vr; only the latter, which was a Sony sponsored event of all things, allowed me enough time to actually fiddle with the headset enough to get it to be comfortable. It was decidedly low res, but it was at least dramatically more responsive. Problem is, none of that matters in the end because it's locked to the PS4, and Sony would literally rather go out of business than open the stupid thing up to be accessible anywhere else.
Of course, valve would rather I spend $1200 for an Index. And its resolution being more demanding than the 4K monitor I did end up with, would require me to get a flagship gpu the moment it launches to have anything resembling the 90+fps requirement to not hurl my lunch everywhere.