Steam removing oculus compatibility with some games?

[RaiderX]

I've noticed on steam that games that were previously listed as Oculus compatible are now only listed as compatible with the vive, main one I noticed was Audioshield. Has anyone else noticed this?

 

[David230]

Yes you are right. Strange thing is some of the games I looked at only a few nights ago were only vive then the following day oculus appeared and now its gone again..

The golf club vr was oculus ready only yesterday now its back to just vive..

 

[Rilot]

I just bought Audioshield yesterday (14th) and played it all evening on my Rift with Touch. It worked fine.

 

[edzieba]

I just bought Audioshield yesterday (14th) and played it all evening on my Rift with Touch. It worked fine.

The 'Oculus' logo on Steam indicates a game implements the Oculus SDK, while the Vive logo indicates a game that implements the SteamVR SDK. SteamVR currently has a compatibility shim for the Rift, so games that implement SteamVR will (more or less, most of the time) work on the Rift.
AFAIK, Audioshield et al have not implements the Oculus SDK, so if they were showing the Oculus logo it was likely in error.

 

[Rilot]

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't release that is what it meant.

 

[ArmitageShanks]

Yes you are right. Strange thing is some of the games I looked at only a few nights ago were only vive then the following day oculus appeared and now its gone again..

The golf club vr was oculus ready only yesterday now its back to just vive..

I suspect Steam went and automatically updated a lot of room-scale titles to supporting the Rift shortly after the Touch updates without the developers knowledge. One dev commented that he had no idea that his title was showing as Rift-compatible and had to remove it manually as it didn't work properly on the Rift (he had to offer refunds to Rift owners that bought it erroneously).