Half-Life VR but the AI Is Self-Aware

Half-Life VR but the AI Is Self-Aware
Gordon Freeman, wearing a VR headset, clutches at the air with a pained expression. Dr. Coomer, Bubby, and Tommy, three Black Mesa scientists, stand menacingly in the background. Benrey, a security guard, stands on the right side in the foreground, his face half out of frame – holding a U.S. passport.
Thumbnail for Act 1 of Half-Life VR but the AI Is Self-Aware, featuring the main cast. From left to right: Gordon Freeman, Dr. Coomer, Bubby, Tommy, and Benrey (holding a passport).
GenreImprov, role-playing, let's play
Presented byWayneRadioTV, Radio TV Solutions[a]
Voices of
  • WayneRadioTV
  • Baaulp
  • Hollow_tones
  • MasterGir
  • Socpens
  • Spaghoner
  • Logmore
  • Lauren
Ending themeAquacycle
ComposersAquacycle
its3oe
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes9
Original release
NetworkTwitch
ReleaseMarch 5 (2020-03-05) –
April 19, 2020 (2020-04-19)
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Half-Life VR but the AI Is Self-Aware (sometimes shortened to Half-Life VR: Self Aware AI and abbreviated HLVR: AI) is a role-playing themed livestream and machinima series staged within a recreation of the video game Half-Life using a virtual reality version of Garry's Mod. The series, live streamed to Twitch with highlights later uploaded to YouTube, follows Gordon Freeman accompanied by the Science Team (controlled by other improv actors) as they loosely follow the events of the original Half-Life game.

The series was met with positive reception by critics. On May 12, 2020, a cast commentary series began to be uploaded to the wayneradiotv YouTube channel.[1] On May 31, 2020, a sequel, AI Crushes All Banks[b] was streamed as part of a charity drive,[2] set in Payday 2, in which the main cast begins a bank robbing spree across the city of Washington, D.C. On November 25, 2021, a spin-off series titled Half-Life: Alyx but the Gnome Is Too Aware was released. On December 16, 2023, a similarly-styled stream was done, this time parodying the plot of Breaking Bad. It was advertised with a trailer similar to the beginning of Half-Life 2 as a bait-and-switch on long time fans.[3] At the end of the stream and soon after in the WayneRadioTV YouTube channel, a trailer was released confirming a sequel to the original series, titled Half-Life 2 VR: Self Aware AI, was in production and due to be released in 2024 or 2025.[4]


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  1. ^ Half-Life VR:AI But The Cast is Commentating (ACT 1). WayneRadioTV. May 12, 2020. Retrieved August 13, 2022 – via YouTube.
  2. ^ WayneRadioTV [@wayneradiotv] (May 30, 2020). "...Tube in for the AI-Crushes-All-Banks JUSTICE DRIVE and help us raise as much as we can for a multitude of bail funds in various states & more! #hlvrai" (Tweet). Retrieved August 13, 2022 – via Twitter.
  3. ^ WayneRadioTV (December 3, 2023). 12-16-23. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
  4. ^ WayneRadioTV (December 17, 2023). Half-Life 2 VR but the AI is Self-Aware - OFFICIAL TRAILER. Retrieved July 9, 2024.