Oculus Rift VR headsets everywhere get bricked for a silly reason

Oculus Rift VR headsets everywhere get bricked for a silly reason

By Joe Osborne

Oculus Rift bricked

If you logged into your computer on March 7 to get into some virtual reality (VR) shenanigans with your Oculus Rift, you were probably met with some major disappointment.

Rather than being able to jump into VR, Oculus Rift owners around the world were greeted with a dialog preventing them even using their headsets.

As it turns out, Oculus VR – and, by proxy, its owner Facebook – seems to have forgotten to renew a crucial app permission certificate within its Oculus Runtime Service for Windows 10 PCs. Oculus VR forum users the world over have cited the problem seen below in a thread that’s six pages long at the time of writing.

Update: Oculus VR has provided the following statement in the same forum thread linked above:

“We are aware of and actively investigating an issue impacting ability to access Rift software. Our teams apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing you and appreciate your patience while we work on a resolution. We’ll share more updates here as we have them. Thanks.”

If you’re lost as to why this occurred, almost all apps on modern computers are supported by several unique services that run in the background, …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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