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.

Comments

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

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:PC master race!

[janoc]

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.

You have been royally fucked !

[Taco Cowboy]

... Sounds like a great reason to never do business with Oculus under any circumstance ...

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