A new update for the Oculus Rift has been revealed and fans are throwing shade at founder Palmer Luckey for somehow breaking his promise about having modded games for the said virtual reality device.
In a report by PC World, Luckey stated a few months back that he wouldn't care too much if people would use the games from Oculus on other devices.
"If customers buy a game from us, I don't care if they mod it to run on whatever they want," the founder revealed in a Reddit post. "[Oculus's] goal is not to profit by locking people to only our hardware."
However, according to a report from Engadget, a new software update for the Oculus Rift would prevent this from happening.
The report revealed that the update would improve "platform integrity checks" that would eventually prohibit the use of Revive, especially for HTC Vive users.
This tool reportedly allows VR users of HTC to use apps and games that are specific to the Oculus Rift to run on the Vive.
However, in defense to that, PC World revealed that the new Oculus 1.4 update does not necessarily block Vive users from using non-Oculus apps. The website claimed that what transpired was actually a side effect of the initial plan of the tech company to avoid the running of Oculus games on non-Oculus devices.
"People should expect that hacked games won't work indefinitely as regular updates to content, apps and our platform may break the hacks," a spokesperson reportedly told Motherboard, according to the report.
Basically, the new software update checks if the Oculus hardware is connected regardless of what you are using compared to before where apps were swayed into believing that there is a Rift attached.
There are no words if founder Palmer Luckey would make some changes about non-Oculus hardware compatibility in the future to fulfill his previous statement.
