Oculus has gone to great lengths to stop HTC Vive owners from playing games released exclusively for its Rift headset.
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Rival platforms such as the HTC Vive will ship 700,000 units and the Oculus Rift will sell approximately 2.3 million, according to the report, which doesn’t indicate exactly how it gathered its data.
Even though Oculus made no mention of the change in their patch notes, they confirmed that the DRM was removed. The situation for Oculus and the hackers wasn’t ideal; Oculus had previously stated “If customers buy a game from us, I don’t care if they mod it to run on whatever they want”, and the LibreVR author was reluctant to go further to bypass Oculus DRM, opening up games to easy copying, but that was the only way to remove the hardware checking DRM. “We continually revise our entitlement and anti-piracy systems, and in the June update we’ve removed the check for Rift hardware from the entitlement check”, the company said.
Oculus VR has dropped its hardware-checking DRM technology, and says it will not use such measures again in the future.
The company will continue their efforts to keep their software secure because they believe that protecting the developer contents is critical to a long-term success in VR industry.
Oculus worked closely with many studios and developers to ensure that there was a significant library of games available for owners of its Rift headset when it launched in March. Last month’s update which was meant to protect them led Revive to bypassing the protection set by oculus completely. It’s now come to light that Oculus has backed down and removed this DRM.
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Oculus’ decision to block Revive proved hugely unpopular, coming amidst a series of controversies around platform exclusivity and developer funding. This year, however, this may change as the Oculus will release their touch controllers and preorders was said to be filled by July, The Verge reported.
