Reddit user CrossVR has found a way to get a few Oculus exclusives running on the HTC Vive. The games, if you’re wondering, are Lucky’s Tale and Oculus Dreamdeck . Both games can be downloaded free of charge through the Oculus Store, so procuring them should be no problem for Vive owners. CrossVR has plans to expand the project in the future, but things are looking promising so far. “It’s still early days for this project, since it’s only been in development for a few weeks,” he said. “In the future more games will be supported, but I’m glad to see such swift progress already.”
Oculus wasn’t too amused. “This is a hack,” it said in a statement, “and we don’t condone it. Users should expect that hacked games won’t work indefinitely, as regular software updates to games, and our platform are likely to break hacked software.” They could have probably squeezed in the word “hack” one more time in that statement, but they made their point.
CrossVR didn’t seem bothered by the response, saying, “Seems like a perfectly fine reaction to me. Of course they can’t condone it, that would mean they’d have to actively support the Revive project, which is completely outside their control. But from that reaction it doesn’t seem they’ll actively try to prohibit it either.” We’ll see about that. In this natal months of consumer VR we still have no idea what kind of impact platform exclusives might have, but I’m all for the clever everyman disrupting the system in interesting ways. Hack on, you hacky hackers.
Source: Eurogamer