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Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate

posted by janrinok on Friday March 09 2018, @01:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the IoT-just-got-better-dept. dept.

aristarchus writes:

As reported by TechCrunch:

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."

If it must phone home, it is not yours. Words to live, and die, by.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Friday March 09 2018, @02:02AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 09 2018, @02:02AM (#649805) Journal

    This is why being an early-adopter is retarted

    FTFY. Now it makes sense.
    retarted - like in "being hit with a tart/pie in the face again - usually because of not learning the lesson in the past".

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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @02:06PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @02:06PM (#649951)

    This is why being an early-adopter is retarded

    Now it both makes sense AND is spelled correctly.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 09 2018, @02:40PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 09 2018, @02:40PM (#649970) Journal

      Not only boring, but insultingly boring.

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