Oculus brings Rift VR headsets back to life with a software fix
Oculus Rift owners discovered that their headsets had stopped working yesterday, thanks to an expired certificate. It appears Oculus forgot to renew its security certificate, causing part of the Rift app to crash and prevent access to its VR software. While temporary fixes involved setting a computer’s date to earlier in the week, Oculus is now issuing a software update to fix the problem.
The fix is available from the Oculus Rift website, and includes a certificate that hasn’t expired. Oculus thanked owners for their patience in a Twitter message today, but stopped short of apologizing for the embarrassing lapse. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen expired certificates affect big software platforms. In November 2015 Mac owners were…
