Items tagged with revive

by Brandon Hill - Fri, Jun 24, 2016

Oculus Quietly Removes DRM Checks, Reopens Door For Rift-Exclusive Games On HTC Vive

Oculus just made a change to its software which removes a controversial “feature” that it added last month. The company has disabled its DRM that checked to make sure that Rift hardware was actually connected to a PC before games purchased and downloaded from the Oculus Store could be played. This DRM in effect... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Mon, May 23, 2016

Oculus Rift DRM Update Backfires And Instead Opens Game Piracy Floodgates

Oculus suddenly finds itself embroiled in a game of cat and mouse as it attempts to keep titles exclusive to the Rift from running on competing VR headsets. Unfortunately for Oculus, its latest attempt at padlocking content with a DRM update backfired, and instead of stopping hacks like Revive from working, Oculus... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Fri, May 20, 2016

Oculus DRM Update Torpedoes Revive Hack That Let HTC Vive Owners Play Rift Games

It looks as though the folks at Oculus aren’t too happy about the Revive hack that we told you about in mid-April that allows Rift-exclusive games like Lucky’s Tale and the Oculus Dreamdeck demo to run on competing hardware like the HTC Vive. Just five months ago, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey proclaimed, “If customers... Read more...