Last month, one programmer managed to get Oculus Rift games to run on HTC Vive. Back then, Oculus released a statement distancing itself from the hack and warning users that there was no guarantee that it would continue to work with nee updates.
Until recently, Oculus only said that regular software updates were likely to break hacked games, never indicating that it would target them specifically. However, an update was released this week doing exactly that.
The developer behind Revive confirmed that the new update successfully stymied his method of unlocking Rift games. "From my preliminary research it seems that Oculus has also added a check whether the Oculus Rift headset is connected to their Oculus Platform DRM," he explained. "And while Revive fools the application in thinking the Rift is connected, it does nothing to make the actual Oculus Platform think the headset is connected"
CrossVR noted that the new update blocks Oculus Rift games from running without the Rift Headset, but it does nothing to prevent Oculus Rift owners from playing pirated games.
Oculus released the following statement:
"Our latest software update included several new features, bug fixes and security upgrades, including an update to our entitlement check that we added to curb piracy and protect games and apps that developers have worked so hard to make.
This update wasn’t targeted at a specific hack.
When we first learned about hacks that modify our software to interfere with the security, functionality and integrity of the Oculus ecosystem, and allow games to run outside the scope of our QA, testing and support, we immediately notified the community that we will not be supporting or maintaining the long term usability or quality of hacked software.
We take the security, functionality and integrity of our system software very seriously and people should expect that hacked games won’t work indefinitely as regular updates to content, apps and our platform may break the hacks."
