Ex-Facebook employee Palmer Luckey wants to fix your Oculus Rift for free

The co-founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, is offering free repair kits to owners of Rift headsets with dodgy audio connections - despite having nothing to do with the company or its parent, Facebook. In a post on his personal blog, Luckey describes the root of an audio issue affected some Oculus Rift owners. The root cause of the issue, Luckey describes, is often the ground trace of the ribbon cable connecting to the right audio module - this can cut out one, or both, built-in headset drivers. While Facebook will offer a full replacement for this issue under warranty, it will often only present itself later in life, beyond the warranty period, leaving owners high and dry. Luckey spent less than three hours - or so he says - designing an external workaround that “has been designed so the average PC gamer will have no problems with installation.” The RR1 repair kit will act as a common ground between the left and right headset modules, repairing the problem for most, and has the added bonus of acting as a third-party headset adapter, too.

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