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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: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday March 09 2018, @04:59PM (1 child)

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Friday March 09 2018, @04:59PM (#650056) Homepage Journal

    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.

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:39AM (#650428)

    What could possibly be better porn than actually *feeling* (hearing, seeing, touch, smell, taste) such an encounter.

    That actually sounds like the fastest way to make people stop watching porn.