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f$*ked oculus rift user here: Their drivers caused what has probably been the only windows bluescreens I've seen in a decade. Then because they can't provide

f$*ked oculus rift user here: Their drivers caused what has probably been the only windows bluescreens I've seen in a decade. Then because they can't provide individual downloadable versions (or for that matter even recover them from their build artifacts, per support) anytime something breaks following an update your SOL until they fix it, if ever. (this is part of a larger dark pattern of creating "installers" that actually are only downloaders that download whatever version is current and install it without saving the downloaded image). I'm in the situation where about a year and a half ago they pushed an update which broke my setup, and they can't seem to fix it, nor are they apparently motivated. The solution is basically buy a new computer/reinstall the OS/whatever and see if that fixes it. I'm not the only one, reddit is full of people having various problems like this, and some have even gone so far as to create restore point style scripts for saving/restoring the install. Their USB drivers have been trash, or they have some requirement that isn't clear, which means that its a game of plugging in the headset and sensors into random USB ports until it decides everything is going to work (maybe). I could go on, but their software people obviously aren't up to the task of providing kernel mode code, or debugging problems in the field. Funny bit, one of their recruiters poped me an email shortly after I gave up on their software/support teams actually being capable of fixing things. Right into the trash it went, I can't imagine working for a dev shop that can't even recover older versions of their build artifacts to do a/b testing.

causality0 4y ago
Same. In a few decades I'm going to look up the obituaries of the Oculus Home software dev team and savor reading about them dying. It says the headset is connected despite showing an amber light, it refuses to play audio from the headset instead of the pc speakers, it refuses to set up the play area without having a PC monitor facing the play area, it makes you reset the play area every time so much as a housefly fart touches a camera.
- StillBored 4y ago
  I was so mad for a while, I considered taking them to small claims court to recover the price of the games, since they broke it, and have basically refused to fix it. Right now its just in the category of "never give meta/etc money for anything because they will f$*k you and never blink" I don't do bus with google, and I won't do bus with facebook, they are just to big to notice when they squash people like me.

causality0 4y ago

Same. In a few decades I'm going to look up the obituaries of the Oculus Home software dev team and savor reading about them dying. It says the headset is connected despite showing an amber light, it refuses to play audio from the headset instead of the pc speakers, it refuses to set up the play area without having a PC monitor facing the play area, it makes you reset the play area every time so much as a housefly fart touches a camera.

StillBored 4y ago
I was so mad for a while, I considered taking them to small claims court to recover the price of the games, since they broke it, and have basically refused to fix it. Right now its just in the category of "never give meta/etc money for anything because they will f$*k you and never blink" I don't do bus with google, and I won't do bus with facebook, they are just to big to notice when they squash people like me.