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Oculus No Longer Lets Customers Move Purchased Software To Non-Oculus Hardware (boingboing.net)
AmiMoJo quotes a report from Boing Boing: As recently as 5 months ago, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was promising his customers that they could play the software they bought from the Oculus store on "whatever they want," guaranteeing that the company wouldn't shut down apps that let customers move their purchased software to non-Oculus hardware. But now, Oculus has changed its DRM to exclude Revive, a "proof-of-concept compatibility layer between the Oculus SDK [software development kit] and OpenVR," that let players buy software in the Oculus store and run it on competing hardware. The company billed the update as an anti-piracy measure, but Revive's developer, who call themselves "Libre VR," points out that the DRM only prevents piracy using non-Oculus hardware, and allows for unlimited piracy by Oculus owners.
In my opinion ... Sounds like a great reason to never do business with Oculus under any circumstance. Apparently they are proven liars. "We will never have this restriction!" ... "okay we have this restriction, because piracy!" "No we don't care about piracy as long as you had to buy our hardware" Liars. Anyone who made the decision to buy from them, wholly or partially, because of the former promise has just been the victim of a bait-and-switch.
Learn to laugh at our differences. It's better than fighting over them.
Let's not forget the Linux users who kick-started the project, and then got told they were dropping Linux support later.
Good products, but shady management is probably ruining the company
* Only supported OS is Windows
* Always connected to the internet, constanly spying on you
* Now this
Yeah, 'cause when people did that after sony's issues, they've since closed, as the boycott by 0.01% of DRM haters has such an effect.
The company closing down is about a visceral desire for vengeance.
Recognizing and not buying from liars - and not taking this risk at all by not buying DRM in general - is about looking after your own interests.
While it's possible that both desires can be satisfied, the latter is definitely more achievable (thus more rational) than the other. Since I did not specify, interpreting my previous comment as the former alone would be an assumption on your part.
Learn to laugh at our differences. It's better than fighting over them.
The big difference is that the 0.01% of DRM haters were a drop in a bucket of Sony customers but they are pretty much *all* the clients Oculus has at the moment.
Outside from the early adopters who have pre-ordered the device, developers and some journalists nobody else has Rift. And these are the people who are getting hosed - first by getting the SDK closed, Linux/Mac versions cancelled, then shipping being delayed, the preorders not being honored/devices given to retail first, now the DRM BS.
Pissing off your only and very vocal customer base while there is a competitor with a better product is a seriously daft move.
Face it! Oculus Rift has screwed all of you and Facebook has is laughing at your idiocy ... and if that's not enough ... you can't do shit about it, except for whining over here and in reddit
You guys are no longer 'movers and shakers' of the tech world, them media heads, aka 'journalists' at CNN or BBC have taken over
Right now they have much more influences than all of you combined
Over at BBC and CNN those so-called 'tech-savvy journalists' are still heaping hosannahs at Oculus Rift, and on their reports, they get some 'researchers' from 'universities', to foretell the 'wonderful future of Virtual Reality', with Oculus Rift
Another fishy thing is that you never hear any mention of "Vive" or any other alternative to Oculus Rift on the same media channels
I smell massive ad campaign looming
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Actually, didn't we see this with 3D cards when they came out? We're currently in the Glide phase and will eventually move to OpenGL/Direct3D phase of common interfaces decoupled from hardware (or the whole thing will die off). Combined with the frankly ridiculous price for a niche entertainment product with just a few games or apps, I'd say the best option is to simply wait (or use Google Cardboard if you must).
Being an early adapter is a suckers game unless you're so rich the price is pocket change for you and you enjoy new technology for its own sake.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.