Oculus Rift has been on the headlines just recently and they owe it to the much-awaited price announcement; however, it is said that HTC Vive will give Rift VR a tough competition on Virtual Reality department this year. (Photo : YouTube/Thio Joe Tech)
HTC Vive players can now freely play Oculus Rift titles as the company now removes the DRM hardware check after several weeks of being vague about their stance in exclusivity.
Previously, HTC Vive users had to rely on an app called Revive. What it basically does is to enable the game located on the Oculus store to run on Valve's headset as well.
Revive was born because of Oculus's decision to suddenly block other hardware from playing their games. Creators of the app are now removing their workaround for the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift because Oculus has already removed their DRM hardware check for their games, The Verge has learned.
Oculus said in a statement: " 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. We won't use hardware checks as part of DRM on PC in the future."
The company has been defending their DRM strategy as their decision to block out HTC Vive has created some sort of bad blood between the two systems. Oculus has also said before their release of their VR headset that they will be allowing players to modify the software and they will not interfere.
Oculus has confirmed to Ars Technica that they have already removed the dreaded DRM hardware check on their games after the latest update. They have also confirmed that they will refrain from using hardware checks for the PC "in the future."
It is now unclear how the exclusive titles of the Oculus Rift VR headset will remain exclusive. The company has not clearly defined how they will protect their developers' content.
LibreVR, the creator of Revive, said that they are still in "disbelief" that Oculus has finally decided to allow HTC Vive players to play Oculus Rift games without any hack or bypass required. Most people prefer the HTC Vive because of its motion controllers and the additional motion sensors that create a more immersive VR experience overall.
Oculus has said that their Touch controllers will start to ship later this year while HTC Vive users are already enjoying their VR experiences. The platform war between the two seems to have been temporarily ceased.
