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The first consumer VR headsets are just starting to ship, but choosing between the two options is an important call for early adopters. Both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift cost $600 and there’s already some exclusive software. Oculus recently added a “platform integrity check” to make sure its exclusive games could only be played on Oculus hardware, but it may have inadvertently made VR piracy infinitely easier.

Oculus released its new VR DRM on Friday, and it was cracked wide open just a day later. This is thanks to a popular user-created software package called Revive. Its goal is to make games from the Oculus store function on the HTC Vive. It does this by porting functions from the Oculus Runtime to OpenVR, an API that’s compatible with the Vive. Prior to the platform integrity check, this allowed Vive owners to use the software they paid for on the hardware of their choice. The method of bypassing the new DRM doesn’t just circumvent the integrity check, it skips the ownership check altogether. It works for pirated game just as well as ones you bought.


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