Oculus has removed the software that blocks HTC Vive from playing games that are exclusive to the Oculus Rift.
Back in April, owners of HTC Vive were using a third-party program to play Oculus-exclusive games. Oculus, however, immediately added a software check that would make sure that the hardware used to play their games is an Oculus Rift. The creators of the third party program, Revive, cracked the DRM added by Oculus completely. Oculus then removed the DRM that checks the hardware, Polygon reported.
Even though Oculus made no mention of the change in their patch notes, they confirmed that the DRM was removed. Furthermore, they said that they will continually revise their anti-piracy systems. However, they will not be using hardware checks as part of the DRM in the future for PC.
The creator of Revive have also tested and found out that Oculus has removed the DRM in the update, Oculus Runtime 1.5, which then led the Revive creator to revert the patches made for Revive.
The company will continue their efforts to keep their software secure because they believe that protecting the developer contents is critical to a long-term success in VR industry. Furthermore, the company stated that they will ensure that developers will continue to invest in VR contents.
The games like "Chronos" and "Edge of Nowhere" were the greatest assets of the Oculus Rift. Last month's update which was intended to protect them led Revive to bypassing the protection set by oculus completely. Now, Revive have removed their DRM-bypassing patch.
The protection systems made by Oculus produced mature games and added more content to Vive's underdeveloped library. The difficulty to buy Oculus Rift made a short-term advantage to Vive's rather attractive purchases. This year, however, this may change as the Oculus will release their touch controllers and preorders was said to be filled by July, The Verge reported.
