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Meta announces always online DRM for all existing and future Quest VR devices (mixed-news.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by drmoose to c/games
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Meta sneakily introduced "Platform Integrity Attestation API" which basically calls home to see whether the user has a valid license to play.

This means that to run apps user has to have online connection to perform an integrity test. Whether it's only a test on launch or continues call home like Denuvo-like DRMs is not yet clear. This could also mean that modified headsets could fail to pass this test essentially closing down the device for modifications that could damage "platform integrity". Not all details are clear yet but this doesn't look good.

Currently it's optional and up to app developers to enable it.

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[–] Hazdaz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOL

Master class in destroying a product line.

Can't tell who is more clueless, Zuck or Musk? They both seem to be hell bent on ruining their own companies.

The one thing I am excited about is eventually seeing Meta cancel their entire Quest division and clearing-out all these VR devices for pennies on the dollar. At which point I would expect some enterprising hackers find a way to run them off a regular PC without needing them to phone-home all the time.

[–] yazz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whole metaverse shtick was ridiculous. Nobody asked for it, and yet they spent billions promoting it anyway

[–] Hazdaz 2 points 1 year ago

Meta has revenue of over $100B. So even if they flushed $10B down the drain on this stuff (10-15% of revenue on R&D), that would be right in-line with industry standards. What's what you can do when you have such a ridiculous amount of money.