Oculus Rift Games Available on Steam

<p>Today is the day that the Oculus Rift finally launched&period; One of the major things you&&num;8217&semi;ll see amidst video coverage is the use of the Oculus Store&period; This is intended to be the main hub of all Oculus Rift games&comma; but it looks like Oculus is going to let third-party applications like Steam host Oculus-compatible games&comma; as well&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;developer&period;oculus&period;com&sol;blog&sol;oculus-pc-sdk-1-3-now-available&sol;">According to a blog post<&sol;a> made on the Oculus website&comma; developers can sell their games outside of the Oculus Store&comma; including directly from themselves&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Of course&comma; there are some caveats&period; For example&comma; the Health and Safety overlays as well as the Oculus home screen must all be possible to view even if being viewed outside of the Oculus platform&period; There are other acknowledgements that must be made&comma; but the end result is Oculus not getting a cut of the game&&num;8217&semi;s profits&comma; as well as the item being made available in much more borwsed channels&period; As great as it will be to find Oculus Rift-compatible games all in one place&comma; Steam has become such a haven for managing your game library that it would be a bit absurd to expect everyone to completely migrate over to a new storefront&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you have an Oculus Rift or are getting one soon&comma; all you have to do is enable the &&num;8220&semi;Unknown Sources&&num;8221&semi; setting on the Oculus desktop app in order to play Oculus Rift games outside of the Oculus Store&period; This was all a part of the Oculus PC SDK 1&period;3 Update&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;developer&period;oculus&period;com&sol;blog&sol;oculus-pc-sdk-1-3-now-available&sol;">Oculus<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;