[coffeeaddicted]

You do like hardware getting locked down for development less than 2 years after it's release? (edit: OK, a bit over 2 years - 31. May 2018, still not that old)

I don't care about the shop. I just wish people could continue to develop for it as it is (or now was...) a pretty fun device to experiment with VR.

[ipsum2]

Why can't you develop for it? Seems easy to load non-signed APKs: https://headjack.io/tutorial/sideload-install-app-apk-oculus...

[coffeeaddicted]

I haven't seen that tool yet (been a few months since I developed for Oculus), so I can't tell yet anything about that (and looks like a Mac app from screenshot, so not sure if it'll work for me).

The first solution described there needs users to register as developer (not just unlock it as in Android phones) and being able to use adb. We will have to see if that continues to work. No info about that yet. It's definitely not completely disconnected from the online stuff. For example - when the system needs updates you can't do any development in that time (I learned about that when after some weeks pause it prevented me completely from developing for nearly a full day because of outstanding updates).

The second solution is using the shop which as the as described by the original article will be shut down and not even updates to existing apps will be possible anymore.