Oculus workaround to play on HTC Vive rendered inoperable by app update

Found on Ars Technica on Sunday, 22 May 2016
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"Oculus has added a check [to look for] whether the Oculus Rift headset is connected to their Oculus Platform DRM," Revive developer "CrossVR" posted to the Vive Reddit community on Friday. "While Revive fools the application [into] thinking the Rift is connected, it does nothing to make the actual Oculus platform think the headset is connected."

However Oculus wants to describe this update, users have wasted no time in quoting company founder Palmer Luckey's own statement about such issues.

"If customers buy a game from us, I don't care if they mod it to run on whatever they want," Luckey wrote in December. "Our goal is not to profit by locking people to only our hardware—if it was, why in the world would we be supporting GearVR and talking with other headset makers?"

Resolutions change as soon as money gets involved. Like Google's "don't be evil".