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.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 09 2018, @02:27AM
Well, you are required to connect your high-end computer to the internet to operate the hardware...
Didn't you know that the Rift only needs the equivalent of a Radeon 5850 to run?
I'd be a shame if anything prevented the ETH miner from installing properly.