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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."
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Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @06:54AM
Fuck headsets that require proprietary software and online activation to use.
I want a goddamn VR headset that I can use anywhere, any time, and ideally has a fallback mode for use as a regular 1080p monitor if the device it is plugged into doesn't actually have VR support (meaning support for warping the image on the displays so the lenses work correctly with unmodified framebuffer content.)
I had heard the Razer headsets were aiming to do that, but then they stopped releasing content and started pushing a 'buy our headsets then resell modified versions' angle, along with not releasing source code or promised hardware documentation.
Has anyone made a serious attempt at another open hardware headset since Razer? I've seen a bit about drivers and a bit about headsets, but neither seem to have made it into either a salable product, nor into a end-user manufacturable form, whether as a kit, premade interface board for a cheap and easily available screen, or other packaged/unpackaged product.
Why can't we start moving towards a REAL cyberpunk future and get the hardware/software base for these things open and competing on fit and finish, rather than on proprietary platforms?