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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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Be careful! UGLY strikes 9 out of 10!
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Friday March 09 2018, @03:49AM (3 children)
You kids are still ficking around with "VR"? It's been over hyped since the 1990s and you still somehow think it is new. Yea, DOOM was a huge breakthrough for consumer equipment, but really, do tell me what you think you are going to DO with it besides play games? Ok, so all you want to do is play games, fine, it seems to me like these gadgets are too technologically cumbersome and this intentional design fuckup proves it. Get off my GRASS1.LMP.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @01:31PM
VR headset + drone-mounted camera = first-person flight
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @03:35PM
I remember these atrocious VR things that were all over malls in the 90's, and then the trend just tanked entirely. But like "3D" and smell-o-vision they dig this out every 20 years and hope it sticks this time around.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @05:24AM
Companies are playing with VR for improved virtual meetings, as they're finding it can convey more non-verbal cues more fluidly than traditional videoconferencing.
Beyond that, porn. It'll probably beat out gaming by quite a bit once the technology ramps up, as the games require quite a bit of development work, while the porn just requires cameras and a source of people willing to show off on them.