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Meta (formerly Facebook) requires a Facebook account to use your Quest VR headset. Meta said last year that it would eventually allow standalone accounts, and now the option is almost here.
Meta announced today that starting in August 2022, you’ll be able to create a ‘Meta account’, which can then be used to set up and use a Quest VR headset. The company said in a blog post: “Your Meta account is not a social media profile; allows you to log in to your VR devices and view and manage your purchased apps in one place. In the future, we will expand the functionality of the Meta account so that you can use it to log in to other Meta devices.”
Meta started requiring new Oculus headsets to use Facebook accounts in October 2020, which turned out to be hugely unpopular, especially considering Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said “You won’t need to log into your Facebook account every time you want to use the Oculus Rift” after Meta (then Facebook) acquired the company in March 2014. The only alternative has been to create disposable VR-only Facebook accounts.
The new account system will also replace legacy Oculus accounts, which were created before devices were fully integrated with Facebook services. Starting January 1, 2023, anyone still using an Oculus account will need to migrate to a Meta account. That’s the same deadline that was already set, except before, the only option was to connect to Facebook.
Of course, having a separate account for your Quest headset won’t stop Meta from collecting data about you, and possibly even linking it to a Facebook account by matching IP addresses. Meta accounts still require “your name, email address, phone number, payment information, and date of birth.” However, moving VR headsets to a separate account makes it easier for family access (no more Facebook accounts for little kids), among other common use cases.
Source: MetaBlog, Oculus
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