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Awkward! All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate

Accepted submission by aristarchus at 2018-03-08 07:04:24 from the IoT-just-got-better dept. dept.
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As reported by TechCrunch [techcrunch.com]:

Someone at Oculus screwed up pretty badly today: 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. Kudos, Oculus!


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