Oculus has pulled a 180 and is removing physical DRM checks that blocked the HTC Vive from playing exclusive Oculus Rift games, reports The Verge. The creators behind Revive, a software that enables Rift games to be playable with a Vive headset, were the first ones to notice.
“We continually revise our entitlement and anti-piracy systems, and in the June update we've removed the check for Rift hardware from the entitlement check,” Oculus said in a statement to The Verge. “We won't use hardware checks as part of DRM on PC in the future. We believe protecting developer content is critical to the long-term success of the VR industry, and we’ll continue taking steps in the future to ensure that VR developers can keep investing in ground-breaking new VR content.”
Oculus has been in some hot water in the past regarding its attitudes toward retaining exclusive titles. The DRM check that will be removed caused a kerfuffle in the VR community when it was first released. Revive then posted a patch that showed how to circumvent all of the DRM protection for all Oculus titles.
The binary for these patches have now been removed and it seems like the VR community hit back hard enough to push Oculus into action.
