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.

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Re:*bullet burn* That was a close one.

[WilliamGeorge]

You made the right choice. Having used both, the Vive is a much more fun and rewarding experience. Room scale makes *all* the difference :)

This simplifies the choices.

[Thanatiel]

As many among you, I plan to buy a VR set in the next few months.
The choice between the brands was kind of difficult.
Thanks to this, it just became one brand easier.
So, thanks, I guess ...

Re:Oculus is worse than microsoft

[dmbasso]

Yes, MS loves UNIX standards. Like when they decided to use \ as folder delimiter, just to be different. And instead of using about any-fucking-thing else, they had to pick exactly the escape character. The Devil himself was envious of their ingenuity, which was eclipsed only many years later, with the launch of IE6.