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

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: 3, Informative) by tonyPick on Friday March 09 2018, @03:14PM

    by tonyPick (1237) on Friday March 09 2018, @03:14PM (#649997) Homepage Journal

    You can't self sign the driver, but according to the Ars story

    Some users have reported that changing a computer's date to an earlier one makes the Oculus usable.

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