First it worked, now it doesn't

[Mrod23]

Good morning to all,

 

It's Thursday morning. I got my Oculus Rift to work with Steam VR and Skyrim VR Tuesday night. Got all the way through Helgen. I fired it up last night and it wouldn't load at all. The launcher fires off but exits before the game itself loads to the first screen. This is without mods and just plain vanilla. It's like there was a silent update that broke everything, even though there are no new timestamps I can see.

 

I did everything I could think of: ran in admin mode, checked every windows and steam log for errors/fails, read every forum, re-installed the game, all to no avail. Is this a shared experience or a singular one? Any ideas I might have missed? Thanks in advance.