Oculus Rift headsets have reportedly stopped working across the globe

Oculus Rift headsets across the globe have reportedly stopped working in unison, thanks to an apparent technical oversight on Oculus' part.

Reports from VR users across numerous websites and forums began to mount earlier today, all claiming that the Oculus client was no longer launching applications (or, indeed, not launching at all) - and was instead returning error messages such as "Can't Reach Oculus Runtime Service" or "Failed to initialise with Oculus: Signature Invalid".

In lieu of official word from Oculus, the VR community (as reported by VRFocus) took it upon itself to isolate the cause of the problem. Soon, the culprit was seemingly found: a .dll file called OculusAppFramework.dll. This, it turns out, contains an expired security certificate, preventing the Oculus client from doing its thing.

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