Someone made it possible to play Oculus Rift exclusives on HTC Vive

A programmer has made it possible to play Oculus Rift exclusives on the HTC Vive, his code removes the boundaries between the two VR platforms.

The programmer who calls himself CrossVR on Reddit has managed to get Oculus exclusives on other VR platforms and has also released proof of concept to let others try his code for themselves. The programmer has already made two Oculus games playable, Lucky's Tale and Oculus Dreamdeck.

CrossVR's code is more like a patch for the selected game that circumvents a few Oculus obstacles to get the game to work on Vive. It was explained like this "It works by reimplementing functions from the Oculus Runtime and translating them to OpenVR calls […] Unfortunately, Oculus has implemented a Code Signing check on the Runtime DLLs, therefore the Revive DLLs cannot be used unless the application is patched".

So when the game is patched using CrossVR's code the Oculus game will work on Vive, without the patch it would be like trying to play an Xbox One game on a PlayStation 4, it won't work.

CrossVR plans to make even more Oculus games available on the Vive. His GitHub page explains how to install the patches and how to get the games to work.

Now the question is how ling this software will get to exist before someone is going to sue him.