Oculus Rift Update Cracked
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Oh.
Oh the irony.
An anti-piracy update for Oculus Rift was released a few days ago, but with one major flaw.
The update made it possible for users of the Revive patch – which allows players to have HTC Vive games on an Oculus – to get around many of the game’s DRM policies.
DRM stands for digital rights management, and makes it easier for analysts to see who has pirated games. Companies like EA and Ubisoft have rather strict DRM policies, forcing you to create either an Origin account for EA, or a God-awful Uplay account.
Revive’s creator, CrossVR, has openly said that using the patch is a form of piracy, and that games played using it should be expected to have problems.
On Reddit, CrossVR made a statement, saying: “Support for bypassing the DRM in Unity engine games is still being worked on. This is my first success at bypassing the DRM, I really didn’t want to go down that path. I still do not support piracy, do not use this library for pirated copies.”
Bypassing the DRM could lead to more piracy in VR titles, as cracking the patch stops the software from verifying legal purchases.
A number of people in the thread have talked about how Oculus separating itself from the Vive has ‘fragmented’ the VR community.
It’s difficult to disagree. If Vive and Oculus had been together from the beginning, this anti-piracy update wouldn’t have been so easily hacked because of people relying on a fan-made patch to play games across both platforms.
VR is a platform that still needs tweaking, from piracy to actual games. We look forward to E3 this year, to see what’s in store.