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Someone at Oculus screwed up pretty badly today [Wednesday]: An expired certificate appears to have soft-bricked all of the company's Rift VR headsets, with users still unable to fire up software on the devices and no word of an incoming fix from the company yet.
Issues were first reported several hours ago on Reddit, where a post on the topic has already garnered hundreds of comments. The problem seems to have resulted from Oculus failing to update an expired certificate with the update, which is now leaving users with an error message saying that the system "Can't reach Oculus Runtime Service."
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Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Friday March 09 2018, @01:47AM (16 children)
Sure, your computer monitor doesn't have eye tracking, accelerometers, etc. but there should be no need to connect to the Internet to use the device. And we don't need to see game exclusivity for Oculus, Vive, etc.
Certainly there are privacy concerns, since a top application will be VR 360 DEGREE PORN.
Blast from the past:
Facebook to Buy Rift Maker Oculus VR for $2bn [soylentnews.org]
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(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Friday March 09 2018, @02:01AM (4 children)
> a top application will be VR 360 DEGREE PORN.
Reminds me I need to buy more hospital shares, and find a good fund based on chiropractors' revenues.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 09 2018, @02:04AM (3 children)
Keeping the spine mobile usually results in a lower need for chiropractors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by beckett on Friday March 09 2018, @05:38AM (2 children)
Evidence based practice largely eliminates chiropractors within the field of allied health professions.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Friday March 09 2018, @05:49AM (1 child)
While true, that's not relevant in today's world context.
Proof: chiropractors exist in non-trivial amount and they do earn a living on the (literally) back of those who call for their services.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by beckett on Friday March 09 2018, @07:13PM
i disagree; evidence based practice is not only relevant, it's essential in today's world context.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Virindi on Friday March 09 2018, @02:08AM (2 children)
Coming soon: "smart" computer screens with a builtin mic and camera that only work when connected to the internet. The fact that it phones home for permission to operate is to ensure the best customer experience, you see. The nonsmart models? Oh, we stopped making them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @03:04AM (1 child)
The word you are looking for is monitor. Not TV.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Friday March 09 2018, @05:11AM
MY monitor has a TV tuner built in as well, or is it my TV also functions as a monitor.
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(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday March 09 2018, @03:26AM (5 children)
Fuck those goggles and fuck POV porn! Let me know when there's neural recorder/playback implants like in either Forward The Foundation [wikipedia.org] or Prelude To Foundation [wikipedia.org] (damned if I can remember which), where full immersion of lived experience by actors takes the place of movies.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @06:30AM (3 children)
But wouldn't the actor know he was acting? And cloud your experience with the fallout of that?
Also his head could still only look in one direction, and his eyes focus at one focal depth... so no freedom to look around. Enjoy randomly staring at the ceiling during the "don't look down while i wizz" scene.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday March 09 2018, @04:59PM (1 child)
OP mentioned porn. What could possibly be better porn than actually *feeling* (hearing, seeing, touch, smell, taste) such an encounter.
Right, because porn actors today don't know they're acting and it's impossible to tell. Please.
Read the novels. It's actually (IIRC) the first chapter of one of the novels I mentioned.
Or don't.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:39AM
That actually sounds like the fastest way to make people stop watching porn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @05:19AM
The extent and manner to which an actor "knows" they are acting in some part depends on whether or not they're a method actor. Anthony Hopkins required therapy after Silence of the Lambs, and I think we all remember Heath Ledger.
"Good acting" often owes a lot to how well the actor ISN'T particularly aware of their role as an actor and instead is immersed in the character.
But yes, it'd never be 100% pure. Afterprocessing could go a long way to cleaning that up though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @01:27PM
See also Strange Days [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @08:14AM (1 child)
For when you get so bored looking at the action that you'd rather turn your head to look at the guy yelling "CUT"...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday March 09 2018, @12:53PM
Suddenly, more camera jobs go to nude women.
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