Every single Oculus Rift headset has reportedly stopped working overnight.
A wave of Rift users have taken to Reddit to complain that the Oculus client will no longer launch, and that error messages like, “Failed to initialise with Oculus: Signature Invalid” and “Can’t Reach Oculus Runtime Service” were being returned.
Oculus has acknowledged the issue.
“We are aware of and actively investigating an issue impacting ability to access Rift software,” the company said. “Our teams apologise for any inconvenience this may be causing you and appreciate your patience while we work on a resolution. We’ll share more updates here as we have them. Thanks.”
The problem appears to be an expired security certificate in the OculusAppFramework.dll file. Thankfully, there appears to be a workaround at present — by disabling the Automatically set System date and time option inside Windows, then changing your PC’s date to a week or so ago, when the certificate was still valid.
Granted, that’s not an ideal fix, but at least it’ll get you back into VR while Oculus provides a proper resolution.
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