Today is the day that the Oculus Rift finally launched. One of the major things you’ll see amidst video coverage is the use of the Oculus Store. This is intended to be the main hub of all Oculus Rift games, but it looks like Oculus is going to let third-party applications like Steam host Oculus-compatible games, as well. According to a blog post made on the Oculus website, developers can sell their games outside of the Oculus Store, including directly from themselves.
Of course, there are some caveats. For example, 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. There are other acknowledgements that must be made, but the end result is Oculus not getting a cut of the game’s profits, as well as the item being made available in much more borwsed channels. As great as it will be to find Oculus Rift-compatible games all in one place, 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.
If you have an Oculus Rift or are getting one soon, all you have to do is enable the “Unknown Sources” setting on the Oculus desktop app in order to play Oculus Rift games outside of the Oculus Store. This was all a part of the Oculus PC SDK 1.3 Update.
Source: Oculus