“Oculus removed the headset check from the DRM in Oculus Runtime 1.5”

Re:“Oculus removed the headset check from the DRM in Oculus ... by nilkn on Friday June 24, 2016 @02:46PM (#11972354)

Many people have batted many eyes about that. Those people typically are big fans of PC gaming, which happens to be the audience that Oculus is targeting. So Oculus is targeting the demographic amongst gamers which is the most opposed to exclusives.

By the way, Valve is supplying quite a bit of funding to VR developers as well but is somehow managing to do it without requiring exclusivity. At the very least, Oculus could require store exclusivity but not hardware exclusivity.

Finally, just because one demographic has gotten used to it (console gamers) doesn't mean it's right. Many folks understand the dangers of exclusives, and they want to prevent that from creeping into PC gaming.

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Re:“Oculus removed the headset check from the DRM in Oculus ... by serge2k on Friday June 24, 2016 @02:55PM (#11972424)

> but is somehow managing to do it without requiring exclusivity. At the very least, Oculus could require store exclusivity but not hardware exclusivity.

Their massive share of teh PC gaming market via steam gives them more freedom.

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Re:“Oculus removed the headset check from the DRM in Oculus ... by sergiosgc on Saturday June 25, 2016 @09:57AM (#11976325)

Their massive share is the result of many years of operating fairly, while navigating the dangerous waters of drm. Valve built a lot of trust, and they are capitalizing on it.

That is, they behaved like they this even when they were not kings of the market, so the reasoning behind this is more akin to company culture than it is to market strategy.

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