BeatOn Support Ending – Illicit Mods Are Now Against the Oculus TOS

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Why I think this is relevant to HN: Oculus Quest is a new standalone (cable-free) VR headset, whose popularity in was to great extent driven by the game BeatSaber, which is popular because - like any dancing game - there was a way for a community to sideload custom songs to dance to. The newest ToS update explicitly kills off song sideloading on Quest, and because of that, a lot of people are talking about sending back the headset for refund. It might turn into an interesting case study of intellectual property concerns possibly ruining a pair of good products.

(Disclaimer: I did bought Quest recently, 90% of the motivation was to play Beat Saber with custom songs. So I'm personally disappointed about this too.)

They might of updated there TOS but nothing has changed, you can still sideload everything just as normal, all that is different is a message at the top saying illicit mods and privacy are against TOS.

I too bought the quest when custom songs became a thing, but found i didn't really like beat saber and perfered BoxVR instead, I don't mind the songs in BoxVR, I only wanted custom songs in Beat Saber because the original songs are cancer but most customs don't flow that well.

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