By Darren Allan
Remember the homebrew tweak that popped up late last week allowing HTC Vive owners to play Oculus Rift games? The bad news is that Oculus has come out and called it a hack, and announced that it’s living on borrowed time.
Ars Technica first spotted the LibreVR plugin called Revive, which acts as a compatibility layer between the Oculus SDK and OpenVR to allow Rift games to run on HTC’s headset, and the site was contacted by Oculus and informed that the plugin will be shut down.
Oculus said: “This is a hack, and we don’t condone it. Users should expect that hacked games won’t work indefinitely, as regular software updates to games, apps, and our platform are likely to break hacked software.”
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Obviously that’s disappointing news for those who benefited from it, but it’s hardly surprising. The plugin requires an EXE patch to work (also Oculus runtimes have to be left running in the background), and the maker has provided instructions on getting Lucky’s Tale and Oculus Dreamdeck to run with the Vive.
However, because these are free launch titles for the Oculus Rift, it was unlikely that Oculus was going to let this workaround stand.
All that said, the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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