Oculus Quest Piracy

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Meta to introduce new Attestation API to crack down on piracy and unauthorized mods. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Altho this isnt terrible news, it isnt good. Key notes to understand here:

• a dev must actually implement this into thier games.

• this will likely cost devs to have access too.

• this will make offline games require internet to authorize. Essentially making the quest devices much like XboxOne and PS4, an online only device. (Which I question the legality of, but I am not a lawyer)

Hopefully these things will work in our favor until an exploit can be found. Read more about it here:

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/platform-integrity-attestation-api-meta-quest-developer

My recommendation is to block firmware updates. Check the sub here to find out how to do that. I personally wouldnt upgrade past firmware v55.

V56 have reports of notifications of unauthorized apps. Not sure if it means anything yet, but the choice is yours.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel this is going to be mandatory eventually

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To be fully honest, there has been a kill switch in the quest headsets since day 1 that could block piracy. Meta has refused to use it because oddly enough, piracy sells units.

I havent seen this "killswitch" myself but a reliable source has explained this to me. I feel this new api is more of a marketing stunt. A way for them to say "look we did something" but only time will tell.