Well… maybe I’m wrong and Revive isn’t a hack, but if it isn’t, every vr specialist are wrong too:
https://www.google.com/search?gl=us&hl=en&pws=0&source=hp&ei=SpcPXeHKE5DWaqCYpoAE&q=revive+hack&oq=revive+hack&gs_l=psy-ab.3…0l2j0i22i30l5j0i22i10i30j0i22i30l2.10238.12700…13020…0.0…0.67.652.14…0…1…gws-wiz…0…0i70i249.mfGO-WqFc9k
Yes in that definition all Compatability layers are Hacks.
It could also be argued VM are hack gateways that can either emulate &or allow direct hardware acs.
Now if you read up on Richard Stallman all programers are Hackers & those that break security are Crackers.
So in conclusion. Hack in this case is not to be confused with Illegal hacking. This is not really different than finding a work around to get an older Windows program to work in Windows 10.
By you definition Windows Compatibilty Wizard is a Hack to allow some older windows programs to still work in W10 that are not directly compatible. So I conceded compatiblility layers/workarounds are indeed hacks.
Reverse engineering in general isn’t illegal in the US, which is where Oculus (Facebook) is located. The only situation I know of where it is illegal is when doing it to bypass encryption allowing copyright violation (this was part of the DMCA).
In fact, this is a similar situation to how we got the modern Windows era of “IBM Compatible” computers, in the early days only official computers manufactured by the company IBM could run their x86 software, they didn’t intend to let any other computer run the same software, but smaller computer companies reverse-engineered the IBM bios so their computers could run the software too. IBM with its massive legal team couldn’t shut it down, except in cases where companies outright copied the IBM BIOS code rather than reverse-engineering it.
Yep in fact IBM computers for a long time you couldn’t run MSDOS only PCDOS.
really weird that your mind went there…
i would like Pimax to start selling t-shirts with their logo on the chest and the slogan underneath “Please be advised”
i would buy two.
lol, thats racist. rofl
Here is one for Running VR without Steam
https://community.openmr.ai/t/opencomposite-play-steamvr-games-without-steamvr/9262?u=heliosurge
So I found out that I had an old installation of Revive, game and controls run fine after updating Revive and Advanced Settings to the latest versions.
Finished it and it’s probably the best thing I experienced so far since I’m a mad Star Wars fan. The game however doesn’t run as smoothly as running it directly from PiTool. Can’t expect Pimax to do much about it but if they could, it’d be great.
So on 1080 (no Ti) the judders a heck of a lot even on low video setting. Some areas are so dark I can’t see much of the details (may have to try it out again with the brightness set to normal on PiTool). But despite it all, I found the lightsaber combat at the end enjoyable albeit distracting from what’s going on (Vader!). The Google Brush bit eats my GPU like cookie monster, running at only 30fps!
Those of you who own Oculus Quest or S… I envy you.